diff --git a/vendor.conf b/vendor.conf
index 5a121604d..b2a7f5188 100644
--- a/vendor.conf
+++ b/vendor.conf
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec  29686dbc5559d93fb1ef402eeda3e35c38d75af4
 
 # Core libcontainer functionality.
 github.com/checkpoint-restore/go-criu   17b0214f6c48980c45dc47ecb0cfd6d9e02df723 # v3.11
-github.com/mrunalp/fileutils            ed869b029674c0e9ce4c0dfa781405c2d9946d08
+github.com/mrunalp/fileutils            7d4729fb36185a7c1719923406c9d40e54fb93c7
 github.com/opencontainers/selinux       3a1f366feb7aecbf7a0e71ac4cea88b31597de9e # v1.2.2
 github.com/seccomp/libseccomp-golang    689e3c1541a84461afc49c1c87352a6cedf72e9c # v0.9.1
 github.com/sirupsen/logrus              8bdbc7bcc01dcbb8ec23dc8a28e332258d25251f # v1.4.1
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/mrunalp/fileutils/README.md b/vendor/github.com/mrunalp/fileutils/README.md
index d15692488..6cb4140ea 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/mrunalp/fileutils/README.md
+++ b/vendor/github.com/mrunalp/fileutils/README.md
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 Collection of utilities for file manipulation in golang
 
-The library is based on docker pkg/archive but does copies instead of handling archive formats.
+The library is based on docker pkg/archive pkg/idtools but does copies instead of handling archive formats.
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/mrunalp/fileutils/fileutils.go b/vendor/github.com/mrunalp/fileutils/fileutils.go
index b60cb909c..5a9818a24 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/mrunalp/fileutils/fileutils.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/mrunalp/fileutils/fileutils.go
@@ -139,19 +139,16 @@ func CopyDirectory(source string, dest string) error {
 			return nil
 		}
 
-		// Copy the file.
-		if err := CopyFile(path, filepath.Join(dest, relPath)); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-
-		return nil
+		return CopyFile(path, filepath.Join(dest, relPath))
 	})
 }
 
+// Gives a number indicating the device driver to be used to access the passed device
 func major(device uint64) uint64 {
 	return (device >> 8) & 0xfff
 }
 
+// Gives a number that serves as a flag to the device driver for the passed device
 func minor(device uint64) uint64 {
 	return (device & 0xff) | ((device >> 12) & 0xfff00)
 }