Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932238AbcDTFHn (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:07:43 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:28560 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752700AbcDTFHm (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:07:42 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: add file_dentry() To: Miklos Szeredi , Al Viro References: <20160323133606.GF11906@tucsk> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, David Howells , Goldwyn Rodrigues , Trond Myklebust , "Theodore Ts'o" , Daniel Axtens , stable@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman From: Sasha Levin Message-ID: <57170E84.9060908@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:07:16 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160323133606.GF11906@tucsk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 491 Lines: 17 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