This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fuse: timeout comparison fix to the 3.15-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: fuse-timeout-comparison-fix.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 126b9d4365b110c157bc4cbc32540dfa66c9c85a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:28:50 +0200 Subject: fuse: timeout comparison fix From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> commit 126b9d4365b110c157bc4cbc32540dfa66c9c85a upstream. As suggested by checkpatch.pl, use time_before64() instead of direct comparison of jiffies64 values. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fuse/dir.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/fuse/dir.c +++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static int fuse_dentry_revalidate(struct inode = ACCESS_ONCE(entry->d_inode); if (inode && is_bad_inode(inode)) goto invalid; - else if (fuse_dentry_time(entry) < get_jiffies_64()) { + else if (time_before64(fuse_dentry_time(entry), get_jiffies_64())) { int err; struct fuse_entry_out outarg; struct fuse_req *req; @@ -985,7 +985,7 @@ int fuse_update_attributes(struct inode int err; bool r; - if (fi->i_time < get_jiffies_64()) { + if (time_before64(fi->i_time, get_jiffies_64())) { r = true; err = fuse_do_getattr(inode, stat, file); } else { @@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@ static int fuse_permission(struct inode ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))) { struct fuse_inode *fi = get_fuse_inode(inode); - if (fi->i_time < get_jiffies_64()) { + if (time_before64(fi->i_time, get_jiffies_64())) { refreshed = true; err = fuse_perm_getattr(inode, mask); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxx are queue-3.15/fuse-handle-large-user-and-group-id.patch queue-3.15/fuse-avoid-scheduling-while-atomic.patch queue-3.15/fuse-timeout-comparison-fix.patch queue-3.15/fuse-ignore-entry-timeout-on-lookup_reval.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html