> On Aug 3, 2016, at 12:45 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 10:28:16AM -0500, Eric Schultz wrote: >> Hey Greg, >> >> Apologies in advance if this isn’t the correct method or channel to report bugs >> with kernel 4.4.16. >> >> Commit c12dada5f28a4894b81df2666c060f5cecc02cf9 was included in kernel 4.4.16 >> but relies on its parent upstream commit >> b99c2d913810e56682a538c9f2394d76fca808f8, currently missing from >> 4.4.16, otherwise BUG() is thrown for certain operations in overlayfs (I’m able >> to reproduce the issue). I can confirm porting upstream commit >> b99c2d913810e56682a538c9f2394d76fca808f8 in to kernel 4.4.16 solves the issues. >> Please let me know if I could help out in any other way. > > This patch does not apply to the 4.4.y stable tree, can you provide a > backport? > > thanks, > > greg k-h No problem, attached is a appliable patch for 4.4.y and was taken from https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150711 --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c 2016-07-31 15:41:55.613057608 +0200 +++ a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c 2016-07-31 15:46:24.498060788 +0200 @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ if (!err) { upperdentry = ovl_dentry_upper(dentry); + if (attr->ia_valid & (ATTR_KILL_SUID|ATTR_KILL_SGID)) + attr->ia_valid &= ~ATTR_MODE; + mutex_lock(&upperdentry->d_inode->i_mutex); err = notify_change(upperdentry, attr, NULL); if (!err)-- 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