Patch "reiserfs: remove unneeded i_version bump" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "reiserfs: remove unneeded i_version bump" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    reiserfs: remove unneeded i_version bump

to the 4.9-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:
     reiserfs-remove-unneeded-i_version-bump.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 foo@baz Thu Feb  1 14:00:34 CET 2018
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:20:15 -0400
Subject: reiserfs: remove unneeded i_version bump

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>


[ Upstream commit 9f97df50c52c2887432debb6238f4e43567386a5 ]

The i_version field in reiserfs is not initialized and is only ever
updated here. Nothing ever views it, so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/reiserfs/super.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
@@ -2521,7 +2521,6 @@ out:
 		return err;
 	if (inode->i_size < off + len - towrite)
 		i_size_write(inode, off + len - towrite);
-	inode->i_version++;
 	inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode);
 	mark_inode_dirty(inode);
 	return len - towrite;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlayton@redhat.com are

queue-4.9/lockd-fix-list_add-double-add-caused-by-legacy-signal-interface.patch
queue-4.9/reiserfs-remove-unneeded-i_version-bump.patch