This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
reiserfs: remove unneeded i_version bump
to the 4.14-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:
reiserfs-remove-unneeded-i_version-bump.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Thu Feb 1 13:45:42 CET 2018
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:20:15 -0400
Subject: reiserfs: remove unneeded i_version bump
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 9f97df50c52c2887432debb6238f4e43567386a5 ]
The i_version field in reiserfs is not initialized and is only ever
updated here. Nothing ever views it, so just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/reiserfs/super.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
@@ -2591,7 +2591,6 @@ out:
return err;
if (inode->i_size < off + len - towrite)
i_size_write(inode, off + len - towrite);
- inode->i_version++;
inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode);
mark_inode_dirty(inode);
return len - towrite;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/lockd-fix-list_add-double-add-caused-by-legacy-signal-interface.patch
queue-4.14/reiserfs-remove-unneeded-i_version-bump.patch