FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ovl: warn instead of error if d_type is not supported" failed to apply to 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From e7c0b5991dd1be7b6f6dc2b54a15a0f47b64b007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 10:02:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ovl: warn instead of error if d_type is not supported

overlay needs underlying fs to support d_type. Recently I put in a
patch in to detect this condition and started failing mount if
underlying fs did not support d_type.

But this breaks existing configurations over kernel upgrade. Those who
are running docker (partially broken configuration) with xfs not
supporting d_type, are surprised that after kernel upgrade docker does
not run anymore.

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/22937#issuecomment-229881315

So instead of erroring out, detect broken configuration and warn
about it. This should allow existing docker setups to continue
working after kernel upgrade.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Fixes: 45aebeaf4f67 ("ovl: Ensure upper filesystem supports d_type")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> 4.6

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index ce02f46029da..9a7693d5f8ff 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -1082,11 +1082,13 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 			if (err < 0)
 				goto out_put_workdir;
 
-			if (!err) {
-				pr_err("overlayfs: upper fs needs to support d_type.\n");
-				err = -EINVAL;
-				goto out_put_workdir;
-			}
+			/*
+			 * We allowed this configuration and don't want to
+			 * break users over kernel upgrade. So warn instead
+			 * of erroring out.
+			 */
+			if (!err)
+				pr_warn("overlayfs: upper fs needs to support d_type.\n");
 		}
 	}