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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: add file_dentry()
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:07:16 -0400
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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