This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fs: pass on flags in compat_writev 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: fs-pass-on-flags-in-compat_writev.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 20223f0f39ea9d31ece08f04ac79f8c4e8d98246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:08:24 +0200 Subject: fs: pass on flags in compat_writev From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> commit 20223f0f39ea9d31ece08f04ac79f8c4e8d98246 upstream. Fixes: 793b80ef14af ("vfs: pass a flags argument to vfs_readv/vfs_writev") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/read_write.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/read_write.c +++ b/fs/read_write.c @@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ static size_t compat_writev(struct file if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_CAN_WRITE)) goto out; - ret = compat_do_readv_writev(WRITE, file, vec, vlen, pos, 0); + ret = compat_do_readv_writev(WRITE, file, vec, vlen, pos, flags); out: if (ret > 0) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@xxxxxx are queue-4.9/configfs-fix-race-between-create_link-and-configfs_rmdir.patch queue-4.9/fs-pass-on-flags-in-compat_writev.patch