From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:40213 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753967AbcHCF4t (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2016 01:56:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:45:36 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Eric Schultz Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 4.4.16: ovl: BUG() in notify_change() Message-ID: <20160803054536.GC6711@kroah.com> References: <5896D6A2-5595-4938-A189-F58BA6FA6E75@startuperic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5896D6A2-5595-4938-A189-F58BA6FA6E75@startuperic.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 10:28:16AM -0500, Eric Schultz wrote: > Hey Greg, > > Apologies in advance if this isn’t the correct method or channel to report bugs > with kernel 4.4.16. > > Commit c12dada5f28a4894b81df2666c060f5cecc02cf9 was included in kernel 4.4.16 > but relies on its parent upstream commit > b99c2d913810e56682a538c9f2394d76fca808f8, currently missing from > 4.4.16, otherwise BUG() is thrown for certain operations in overlayfs (I’m able > to reproduce the issue). I can confirm porting upstream commit > b99c2d913810e56682a538c9f2394d76fca808f8 in to kernel 4.4.16 solves the issues. > Please let me know if I could help out in any other way. This patch does not apply to the 4.4.y stable tree, can you provide a backport? thanks, greg k-h