From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: add file_dentry()
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:07:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57170E84.9060908@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160323133606.GF11906@tucsk>
Hey Miklos,
On 03/23/2016 09:36 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This series fixes bugs in nfs and ext4 due to 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs:
> Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay").
Since that commit got backported into older -stable kernel, it would
appear that this file_dentry() series is relevant for pre-4.2 kernels as
well.
However, backporting it seems to be less than trivial.
Could you provide a backport for older -stable kernels please?
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-20 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-23 13:36 [PATCH v2] fs: add file_dentry() Miklos Szeredi
2016-03-23 14:06 ` William Dauchy
2016-03-23 14:14 ` Miklos Szeredi
2016-03-23 14:24 ` William Dauchy
2016-04-20 5:07 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2016-04-27 10:11 ` Miklos Szeredi
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