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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Eric Schultz <eric@startuperic.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4.4.16: ovl: BUG() in notify_change()
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:45:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160803054536.GC6711@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5896D6A2-5595-4938-A189-F58BA6FA6E75@startuperic.com>

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

       reply	other threads:[~2016-08-03  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5896D6A2-5595-4938-A189-F58BA6FA6E75@startuperic.com>
2016-08-03  5:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-08-03 10:02   ` 4.4.16: ovl: BUG() in notify_change() Eric Schultz
2016-08-03 13:28     ` Greg KH

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