Patch "xfs: skip stale inodes in xfs_iflush_cluster" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

xfs: skip stale inodes in xfs_iflush_cluster

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:
xfs-skip-stale-inodes-in-xfs_iflush_cluster.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:54:23 +1000
Subject: xfs: skip stale inodes in xfs_iflush_cluster

From: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>

commit 7d3aa7fe970791f1a674b14572a411accf2f4d4e upstream.

We don't write back stale inodes so we should skip them in xfs_iflush_cluster, too.

---
 fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -3222,6 +3222,7 @@ xfs_iflush_cluster(
 		 */
 		spin_lock(&iq->i_flags_lock);
 		if (!iq->i_ino ||
+		    __xfs_iflags_test(iq, XFS_ISTALE) ||
 		    (XFS_INO_TO_AGINO(mp, iq->i_ino) & mask) != first_index) {
 			spin_unlock(&iq->i_flags_lock);
 			continue;

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

queue-4.4/xfs-xfs_iflush_cluster-fails-to-abort-on-error.patch queue-4.4/xfs-disallow-rw-remount-on-fs-with-unknown-ro-compat-features.patch queue-4.4/xfs-fix-inode-validity-check-in-xfs_iflush_cluster.patch queue-4.4/xfs-skip-stale-inodes-in-xfs_iflush_cluster.patch queue-4.4/xfs-handle-dquot-buffer-readahead-in-log-recovery-correctly.patch queue-4.4/xfs-don-t-wrap-growfs-agfl-indexes.patch