diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
index 54e5d6681786780812c9a5adddc27dd782b40bbb..43fdc2765aea65b85a20b0f28b844a3ba1b40d4e 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ int ovl_copy_xattr(struct dentry *old, struct dentry *new)
 	}
 
 	for (name = buf; name < (buf + list_size); name += strlen(name) + 1) {
+		if (ovl_is_private_xattr(name))
+			continue;
 retry:
 		size = vfs_getxattr(old, name, value, value_size);
 		if (size == -ERANGE)
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
index 1b885c156028d3a4209cf51b6898006c28ac0ee6..024352f1d405bac658be6adf6ad372c023c5fa0c 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static int ovl_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buf, int bufsiz)
 	return err;
 }
 
-static bool ovl_is_private_xattr(const char *name)
+bool ovl_is_private_xattr(const char *name)
 {
 #define OVL_XATTR_PRE_NAME OVL_XATTR_PREFIX "."
 	return strncmp(name, OVL_XATTR_PRE_NAME,
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index e4f5c9536bfeaf1346ee908dc8081ee42f726fc1..34839bd2b6b8bb8a13b8080c14c90008c358bfdd 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ int ovl_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name);
 struct posix_acl *ovl_get_acl(struct inode *inode, int type);
 int ovl_open_maybe_copy_up(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int file_flags);
 int ovl_update_time(struct inode *inode, struct timespec *ts, int flags);
+bool ovl_is_private_xattr(const char *name);
 
 struct inode *ovl_new_inode(struct super_block *sb, umode_t mode);
 struct inode *ovl_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *realinode);