This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vfs: add d_real_inode() helper
to the 4.6-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:
vfs-add-d_real_inode-helper.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 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
@@ -576,5 +576,17 @@ 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-4.6/vfs-add-d_real_inode-helper.patch
queue-4.6/af_unix-fix-hard-linked-sockets-on-overlay.patch
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