This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ovl: fix working on distributed fs as lower layer to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ovl-fix-working-on-distributed-fs-as-lower-layer.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b5891cfab08fe3144a616e8e734df7749fb3b7d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:22:16 +0300 Subject: ovl: fix working on distributed fs as lower layer From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> commit b5891cfab08fe3144a616e8e734df7749fb3b7d0 upstream. This adds missing .d_select_inode into alternative dentry_operations. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 7c03b5d45b8e ("ovl: allow distributed fs as lower layer") Fixes: 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay") Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ static const struct dentry_operations ov static const struct dentry_operations ovl_reval_dentry_operations = { .d_release = ovl_dentry_release, + .d_select_inode = ovl_d_select_inode, .d_revalidate = ovl_dentry_revalidate, .d_weak_revalidate = ovl_dentry_weak_revalidate, }; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from koct9i@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ovl-ignore-lower-entries-when-checking-purity-of-non-directory-entries.patch queue-4.4/ovl-fix-working-on-distributed-fs-as-lower-layer.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html