statx followup fixes, fix for a nasty corner case in path_init() leaving path.dentry in RCU mode pointing to a dentry without DCACHE_RCUACCESS and a fix for stack-smashing on alpha. The following changes since commit c02ed2e75ef4c74e41e421acb4ef1494671585e8: Linux 4.11-rc4 (2017-03-26 14:15:16 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git for-linus for you to fetch changes up to 0b1367305acc8e8706e13aa4c6766a747cf489d4: statx: Include a mask for stx_attributes in struct statx (2017-04-02 12:27:59 -0400) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Al Viro (2): path_init(): make sure that nd->path.dentry freeing will be RCU-delayed alpha: fix stack smashing in old_adjtimex(2) Darrick J. Wong (1): xfs: report crtime and attribute flags to statx David Howells (3): ext4: Add statx support statx: Reserve the top bit of the mask for future struct expansion statx: Include a mask for stx_attributes in struct statx Eric Biggers (4): Documentation/filesystems: fix documentation for ->getattr() statx: reject unknown flags when using NULL path statx: remove incorrect part of vfs_statx() comment statx: optimize copy of struct statx to userspace Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 3 +- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 +++ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 3 +- arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 1 + fs/ext4/file.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++-- fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 + fs/ext4/symlink.c | 3 ++ fs/namei.c | 11 +++-- fs/stat.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------- fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 14 +++++++ include/linux/stat.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/stat.h | 5 ++- samples/statx/test-statx.c | 12 ++++-- 15 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)