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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 02:47:44PM +0000, SZ Lin (林上智) wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> <snip>
> > 
> > backports of what?  If this isn't needed in the stable tree, I don't really want to add it.  If
> > some other fix requires it I will be glad to take it.  But I dont see that here, right?
> 
> There are two fixes [1][2] in upstream depend on this patch, I plan to send those fixes[1][2] after proper testing in 4.4..
> 
> [1] eea2fb4851e9d ("ovl: proper cleanup of workdir")
> [2] 415543d5c64fe ("ovl: cleanup bad and stale index entries on mount")
> 
> Please consider to apply this patch to 4.4-stable, thanks.

Please send all of these as a series so that I _know_ these are all
needed in this order.

Thanks,

greg k-h