Patch "xfs: skip stale inodes in xfs_iflush_cluster" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

Patch "xfs: skip stale inodes in xfs_iflush_cluster" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xfs: skip stale inodes in xfs_iflush_cluster

to the 3.14-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:
     xfs-skip-stale-inodes-in-xfs_iflush_cluster.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 7d3aa7fe970791f1a674b14572a411accf2f4d4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:54:23 +1000
Subject: xfs: skip stale inodes in xfs_iflush_cluster

From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

commit 7d3aa7fe970791f1a674b14572a411accf2f4d4e upstream.

We don't write back stale inodes so we should skip them in
xfs_iflush_cluster, too.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -2925,6 +2925,7 @@ xfs_iflush_cluster(
 		 */
 		spin_lock(&iq->i_flags_lock);
 		if (!iq->i_ino ||
+		    __xfs_iflags_test(iq, XFS_ISTALE) ||
 		    (XFS_INO_TO_AGINO(mp, iq->i_ino) & mask) != first_index) {
 			spin_unlock(&iq->i_flags_lock);
 			continue;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dchinner@redhat.com are

queue-3.14/xfs-xfs_iflush_cluster-fails-to-abort-on-error.patch
queue-3.14/xfs-fix-inode-validity-check-in-xfs_iflush_cluster.patch
queue-3.14/xfs-skip-stale-inodes-in-xfs_iflush_cluster.patch