Patch "ceph: do not modify fi->frag in need_reset_readdir()" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

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

    ceph: do not modify fi->frag in need_reset_readdir()

to the 4.7-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:
ceph-do-not-modify-fi-frag-in-need_reset_readdir.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

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

From: Nicolas Iooss <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:47:12 +0200
Subject: ceph: do not modify fi->frag in need_reset_readdir()

From: Nicolas Iooss <[email protected]>

commit 0f5aa88a7bb28b73253fb42b3df8202142769f39 upstream.

Commit f3c4ebe65ea1 ("ceph: using hash value to compose dentry offset") modified "if (fpos_frag(new_pos) != fi->frag)" to "if (fi->frag |= fpos_frag(new_pos))" in need_reset_readdir(), thus replacing a comparison operator with an assignment one.

This looks like a typo which is reported by clang when building the kernel with some warning flags:

    fs/ceph/dir.c:600:22: error: using the result of an assignment as a
    condition without parentheses [-Werror,-Wparentheses]
            } else if (fi->frag |= fpos_frag(new_pos)) {
                       ~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    fs/ceph/dir.c:600:22: note: place parentheses around the assignment
    to silence this warning
            } else if (fi->frag |= fpos_frag(new_pos)) {
                                ^
                       (                             )
    fs/ceph/dir.c:600:22: note: use '!=' to turn this compound
    assignment into an inequality comparison
            } else if (fi->frag |= fpos_frag(new_pos)) {
                                ^~
                                !=

---
 fs/ceph/dir.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ static bool need_reset_readdir(struct ce
 	if (is_hash_order(new_pos)) {
 		/* no need to reset last_name for a forward seek when
 		 * dentries are sotred in hash order */
-	} else if (fi->frag |= fpos_frag(new_pos)) {
+	} else if (fi->frag != fpos_frag(new_pos)) {
 		return true;
 	}
 	rinfo = fi->last_readdir ? &fi->last_readdir->r_reply_info : NULL;

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

queue-4.7/printk-fix-parsing-of-brl-option.patch queue-4.7/ceph-do-not-modify-fi-frag-in-need_reset_readdir.patch