diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 32f31243d36ad00d846830d9bff7bc419f121a56..ec31711d48869cbcba7a9c156e36321e574c1c2c 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -1079,6 +1079,9 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 
 	root_dentry->d_fsdata = oe;
 
+	ovl_copyattr(ovl_dentry_real(root_dentry)->d_inode,
+		     root_dentry->d_inode);
+
 	sb->s_magic = OVERLAYFS_SUPER_MAGIC;
 	sb->s_op = &ovl_super_operations;
 	sb->s_root = root_dentry;