From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] ovl: fix overlay: warning prefix Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 13:35:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20171218123530.GA7128@kroah.com> References: <1511375254-15206-1-git-send-email-amir73il@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56954 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933349AbdLRMf2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:35:28 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-unionfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org To: Amir Goldstein Cc: overlayfs , Miklos Szeredi , stable On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 02:19:52PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > Conform two stray warning messages to the standard overlayfs: prefix. > > > > Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein > > --- > > Greg, > > Upstream commit ("da2e6b7eeda8 ovl: fix overlay: warning prefix") > was not marked for stable, because it is not a bug fix per-se. > Nevertheless, it may be useful to apply it to stable kernels to keep > overlayfs bug reports/analysis consistent. > > The first hunk fixes (#v4.10): > a6c606551141 ovl: redirect on rename-dir > > The second hunk fixes (#v4.14): > b5efccbe0a12 ovl: constant d_ino across copy up > > For your consideration. > If you wish, I can send a patch for v4.10 with just the first hunk. 4.10 is long end-of-life, so I don't think that matters :) As for 4.14, this is just an error message, I don't think it's that serious of a fix for a stable kernel, do you? It's _this_ close to just being a spelling fix. thanks, greg k-h