This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Make stat/lstat/fstatat pass AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT to vfs_statx() 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: make-stat-lstat-fstatat-pass-at_no_automount-to-vfs_statx.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 deccf497d804a4c5fca2dbfad2f104675a6f9102 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 23:30:16 +0100 Subject: Make stat/lstat/fstatat pass AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT to vfs_statx() From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> commit deccf497d804a4c5fca2dbfad2f104675a6f9102 upstream. stat/lstat/fstatat need to pass AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT to vfs_statx() as the pre-statx code didn't set LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT, even though fstatat() accepted the AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag. Fixes: a528d35e8bfc ("statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available") Reported-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/fs.h | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2921,17 +2921,19 @@ extern int vfs_statx_fd(unsigned int, st static inline int vfs_stat(const char __user *filename, struct kstat *stat) { - return vfs_statx(AT_FDCWD, filename, 0, stat, STATX_BASIC_STATS); + return vfs_statx(AT_FDCWD, filename, AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, + stat, STATX_BASIC_STATS); } static inline int vfs_lstat(const char __user *name, struct kstat *stat) { - return vfs_statx(AT_FDCWD, name, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, + return vfs_statx(AT_FDCWD, name, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW | AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, stat, STATX_BASIC_STATS); } static inline int vfs_fstatat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, struct kstat *stat, int flags) { - return vfs_statx(dfd, filename, flags, stat, STATX_BASIC_STATS); + return vfs_statx(dfd, filename, flags | AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, + stat, STATX_BASIC_STATS); } static inline int vfs_fstat(int fd, struct kstat *stat) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/make-stat-lstat-fstatat-pass-at_no_automount-to-vfs_statx.patch