Patch "fs: pass on flags in compat_writev" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    fs: pass on flags in compat_writev

to the 4.11-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:
     fs-pass-on-flags-in-compat_writev.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 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 20223f0f39ea9d31ece08f04ac79f8c4e8d98246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:08:24 +0200
Subject: fs: pass on flags in compat_writev

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

commit 20223f0f39ea9d31ece08f04ac79f8c4e8d98246 upstream.

Fixes: 793b80ef14af ("vfs: pass a flags argument to vfs_readv/vfs_writev")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/read_write.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ static size_t compat_writev(struct file
 	if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_CAN_WRITE))
 		goto out;
 
-	ret = compat_do_readv_writev(WRITE, file, vec, vlen, pos, 0);
+	ret = compat_do_readv_writev(WRITE, file, vec, vlen, pos, flags);
 
 out:
 	if (ret > 0)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@lst.de are

queue-4.11/configfs-fix-race-between-create_link-and-configfs_rmdir.patch
queue-4.11/fs-pass-on-flags-in-compat_writev.patch