This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ubifs: Fix RENAME_WHITEOUT support to the 4.9-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: ubifs-fix-rename_whiteout-support.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c3d9fda688742c06e89aa1f0f8fd943fc11468cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 10:04:25 +0100 Subject: ubifs: Fix RENAME_WHITEOUT support From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> commit c3d9fda688742c06e89aa1f0f8fd943fc11468cb upstream. Remove faulty leftover check in do_rename(), apparently introduced in a merge that combined whiteout support changes with commit f03b8ad8d386 ("fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems") Fixes: f03b8ad8d386 ("fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems") Fixes: 9e0a1fff8db5 ("ubifs: Implement RENAME_WHITEOUT") Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ubifs/dir.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ubifs/dir.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/dir.c @@ -1088,9 +1088,6 @@ static int do_rename(struct inode *old_d struct timespec time; unsigned int uninitialized_var(saved_nlink); - if (flags & ~RENAME_NOREPLACE) - return -EINVAL; - /* * Budget request settings: deletion direntry, new direntry, removing * the old inode, and changing old and new parent directory inodes. Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nbd@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ubifs-fix-rename_whiteout-support.patch