This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xfs: skip stale inodes in xfs_iflush_cluster to the 4.6-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: xfs-skip-stale-inodes-in-xfs_iflush_cluster.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7d3aa7fe970791f1a674b14572a411accf2f4d4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:54:23 +1000 Subject: xfs: skip stale inodes in xfs_iflush_cluster From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7d3aa7fe970791f1a674b14572a411accf2f4d4e upstream. We don't write back stale inodes so we should skip them in xfs_iflush_cluster, too. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c @@ -3207,6 +3207,7 @@ xfs_iflush_cluster( */ spin_lock(&iq->i_flags_lock); if (!iq->i_ino || + __xfs_iflags_test(iq, XFS_ISTALE) || (XFS_INO_TO_AGINO(mp, iq->i_ino) & mask) != first_index) { spin_unlock(&iq->i_flags_lock); continue; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.6/xfs-xfs_iflush_cluster-fails-to-abort-on-error.patch queue-4.6/xfs-disallow-rw-remount-on-fs-with-unknown-ro-compat-features.patch queue-4.6/xfs-fix-inode-validity-check-in-xfs_iflush_cluster.patch queue-4.6/xfs-skip-stale-inodes-in-xfs_iflush_cluster.patch queue-4.6/xfs-remove-xfs_fs_evict_inode.patch queue-4.6/xfs-don-t-wrap-growfs-agfl-indexes.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