This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled orangefs: do not set getattr_time on orangefs_lookup to the 4.11-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: orangefs-do-not-set-getattr_time-on-orangefs_lookup.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 17930b252cd6f31163c259eaa99dd8aa630fb9ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Brandenburg <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:37:58 -0400 Subject: orangefs: do not set getattr_time on orangefs_lookup From: Martin Brandenburg <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 17930b252cd6f31163c259eaa99dd8aa630fb9ba upstream. Since orangefs_lookup calls orangefs_iget which calls orangefs_inode_getattr, getattr_time will get set. Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/orangefs/namei.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/orangefs/namei.c +++ b/fs/orangefs/namei.c @@ -193,8 +193,6 @@ static struct dentry *orangefs_lookup(st goto out; } - ORANGEFS_I(inode)->getattr_time = jiffies - 1; - gossip_debug(GOSSIP_NAME_DEBUG, "%s:%s:%d " "Found good inode [%lu] with count [%d]\n", Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/orangefs-do-not-check-possibly-stale-size-on-truncate.patch queue-4.11/orangefs-fix-bounds-check-for-listxattr.patch queue-4.11/orangefs-clean-up-oversize-xattr-validation.patch queue-4.11/orangefs-do-not-set-getattr_time-on-orangefs_lookup.patch