Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ovl: hash directory inodes for fsnotify" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@axis.com>]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 05:02:32PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 4:31 PM,  <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-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>.
> >
> 
> Hi Niklas,
> 
> The conflict resolution of this patch for v4.14 is trivial (just dropping last
> hunk of inode.c patch), but I no means to test this right now.
> 
> Are you able and/or interested to test the attached backport path for
> stable kernel v4.14?
> 
> I have posted an LTP test (inotify07) to test this fix if anyone else
> is interested in testing:
> https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/pull/246
> 
> Thanks,
> Amir.

Hello Amir,

I have already backported+verified the fix to v4.13 in one of our internal
trees.

Like you said, I simply dropped the last hunk of the patch that modfied
inode.c, i.e. I simply ignored this hunk of the patch:

@@ -685,7 +702,7 @@ struct inode *ovl_get_inode(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *upperdentry,
 		ovl_set_flag(OVL_IMPURE, inode);
 
 	/* Check for non-merge dir that may have whiteouts */
-	if (S_ISDIR(realinode->i_mode)) {
+	if (is_dir) {
 		struct ovl_entry *oe = dentry->d_fsdata;
 
 		if (((upperdentry && lowerdentry) || oe->numlower > 1) ||


Regards,
Niklas