The quilt patch titled Subject: proc: remove mark_inode_dirty() in .setattr() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was proc-remove-mark_inode_dirty-in-setattr.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: proc: remove mark_inode_dirty() in .setattr() Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 23:08:40 +0800 procfs' .setattr() has updated i_uid, i_gid and i_mode into proc dirent, we don't need to call mark_inode_dirty() for delayed update, remove it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230131150840.34726-1-chao@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/base.c | 1 - fs/proc/generic.c | 1 - fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 1 - 3 files changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/base.c~proc-remove-mark_inode_dirty-in-setattr +++ a/fs/proc/base.c @@ -699,7 +699,6 @@ int proc_setattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap return error; setattr_copy(&nop_mnt_idmap, inode, attr); - mark_inode_dirty(inode); return 0; } --- a/fs/proc/generic.c~proc-remove-mark_inode_dirty-in-setattr +++ a/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ static int proc_notify_change(struct mnt return error; setattr_copy(&nop_mnt_idmap, inode, iattr); - mark_inode_dirty(inode); proc_set_user(de, inode->i_uid, inode->i_gid); de->mode = inode->i_mode; --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c~proc-remove-mark_inode_dirty-in-setattr +++ a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -841,7 +841,6 @@ static int proc_sys_setattr(struct mnt_i return error; setattr_copy(&nop_mnt_idmap, inode, attr); - mark_inode_dirty(inode); return 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from chao@xxxxxxxxxx are