Patch "eCryptfs: Invalidate dcache entries when lower i_nlink is zero" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

eCryptfs: Invalidate dcache entries when lower i_nlink is zero

to the 4.1-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:
ecryptfs-invalidate-dcache-entries-when-lower-i_nlink-is-zero.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 11:26:36 -0500
Subject: eCryptfs: Invalidate dcache entries when lower i_nlink is zero

From: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>

commit 5556e7e6d30e8e9b5ee51b0e5edd526ee80e5e36 upstream.

Consider eCryptfs dcache entries to be stale when the corresponding lower inode's i_nlink count is zero. This solves a problem caused by the lower inode being directly modified, without going through the eCryptfs mount, leaving stale eCryptfs dentries cached and the eCryptfs inode's i_nlink count not being cleared.

---
 fs/ecryptfs/dentry.c |   16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

@@ -45,20 +45,20 @@
 static int ecryptfs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
 {
 	struct dentry *lower_dentry = ecryptfs_dentry_to_lower(dentry);
-	int rc;
-
-	if (!(lower_dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE))
-		return 1;
+	int rc = 1;
 
 	if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
 		return -ECHILD;
 
-	rc = lower_dentry->d_op->d_revalidate(lower_dentry, flags);
+	if (lower_dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE)
+		rc = lower_dentry->d_op->d_revalidate(lower_dentry, flags);
+
 	if (d_really_is_positive(dentry)) {
-		struct inode *lower_inode =
-			ecryptfs_inode_to_lower(d_inode(dentry));
+		struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
 
-		fsstack_copy_attr_all(d_inode(dentry), lower_inode);
+		fsstack_copy_attr_all(inode, ecryptfs_inode_to_lower(inode));
+		if (!inode->i_nlink)
+			return 0;
 	}
 	return rc;
 }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.1/ecryptfs-invalidate-dcache-entries-when-lower-i_nlink-is-zero.patch