This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFS: Fix a typo in nfs_rename() to the 4.4-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: nfs-fix-a-typo-in-nfs_rename.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:38:50 CET 2017 From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 15:28:04 -0500 Subject: NFS: Fix a typo in nfs_rename() From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d803224c84be067754db7fa58a93f36f61566493 ] On successful rename, the "old_dentry" is retained and is attached to the "new_dir", so we need to call nfs_set_verifier() accordingly. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -2051,7 +2051,7 @@ out: if (new_inode != NULL) nfs_drop_nlink(new_inode); d_move(old_dentry, new_dentry); - nfs_set_verifier(new_dentry, + nfs_set_verifier(old_dentry, nfs_save_change_attribute(new_dir)); } else if (error == -ENOENT) nfs_dentry_handle_enoent(old_dentry); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/nfs-fix-a-typo-in-nfs_rename.patch