From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:51092 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756204AbcBXDyA (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:54:00 -0500 Subject: Patch "ovl: root: copy attr" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: miklos@szeredi.hu, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:24:42 -0800 Message-ID: <145628428218946@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ovl: root: copy attr to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ovl-root-copy-attr.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From ed06e069775ad9236087594a1c1667367e983fb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:11:59 +0100 Subject: ovl: root: copy attr From: Miklos Szeredi commit ed06e069775ad9236087594a1c1667367e983fb5 upstream. We copy i_uid and i_gid of underlying inode into overlayfs inode. Except for the root inode. Fix this omission. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -1053,6 +1053,9 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_b 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; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from miklos@szeredi.hu are queue-4.4/ovl-allow-zero-size-xattr.patch queue-4.4/ovl-root-copy-attr.patch queue-4.4/ovl-check-dentry-positiveness-in-ovl_cleanup_whiteouts.patch queue-4.4/ovl-setattr-check-permissions-before-copy-up.patch queue-4.4/ovl-use-a-minimal-buffer-in-ovl_copy_xattr.patch