On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 02:19:52PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Conform two stray warning messages to the standard overlayfs: prefix.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Greg,
>
> Upstream commit ("da2e6b7eeda8 ovl: fix overlay: warning prefix")
> was not marked for stable, because it is not a bug fix per-se.
> Nevertheless, it may be useful to apply it to stable kernels to keep
> overlayfs bug reports/analysis consistent.
>
> The first hunk fixes (#v4.10):
> a6c606551141 ovl: redirect on rename-dir
>
> The second hunk fixes (#v4.14):
> b5efccbe0a12 ovl: constant d_ino across copy up
>
> For your consideration.
> If you wish, I can send a patch for v4.10 with just the first hunk.
4.10 is long end-of-life, so I don't think that matters :)
As for 4.14, this is just an error message, I don't think it's that
serious of a fix for a stable kernel, do you? It's _this_ close to just
being a spelling fix.
thanks,
greg k-h