This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper 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: vfs-add-vfs_select_inode-helper.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 54d5ca871e72f2bb172ec9323497f01cd5091ec7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 01:16:37 +0200 Subject: vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 54d5ca871e72f2bb172ec9323497f01cd5091ec7 upstream. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/open.c | 12 ++++-------- include/linux/dcache.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -840,16 +840,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_path); int vfs_open(const struct path *path, struct file *file, const struct cred *cred) { - struct dentry *dentry = path->dentry; - struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; + struct inode *inode = vfs_select_inode(path->dentry, file->f_flags); - file->f_path = *path; - if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_SELECT_INODE) { - inode = dentry->d_op->d_select_inode(dentry, file->f_flags); - if (IS_ERR(inode)) - return PTR_ERR(inode); - } + if (IS_ERR(inode)) + return PTR_ERR(inode); + file->f_path = *path; return do_dentry_open(file, inode, NULL, cred); } --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -592,4 +592,16 @@ static inline struct dentry *d_real(stru return dentry; } +static inline struct inode *vfs_select_inode(struct dentry *dentry, + unsigned open_flags) +{ + struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry); + + if (inode && unlikely(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_SELECT_INODE)) + inode = dentry->d_op->d_select_inode(dentry, open_flags); + + return inode; +} + + #endif /* __LINUX_DCACHE_H */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/vfs-rename-check-backing-inode-being-equal.patch queue-4.4/vfs-add-vfs_select_inode-helper.patch queue-4.4/atomic_open-fix-the-handling-of-create_error.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