This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vfs: add d_real_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-d_real_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 a118084432d642eeccb961c7c8cc61525a941fcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 22:13:45 +0200 Subject: vfs: add d_real_inode() helper From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> commit a118084432d642eeccb961c7c8cc61525a941fcb upstream. Needed by the following fix. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/dcache.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -603,5 +603,17 @@ static inline struct inode *vfs_select_i return inode; } +/** + * d_real_inode - Return the real inode + * @dentry: The dentry to query + * + * If dentry is on an union/overlay, then return the underlying, real inode. + * Otherwise return d_inode(). + */ +static inline struct inode *d_real_inode(struct dentry *dentry) +{ + return d_backing_inode(d_real(dentry)); +} + #endif /* __LINUX_DCACHE_H */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/vfs-add-d_real_inode-helper.patch queue-4.4/af_unix-fix-hard-linked-sockets-on-overlay.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