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Patch "expand the call of dentry_lru_del() in dentry_kill()" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

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

expand the call of dentry_lru_del() in dentry_kill()

to the 3.14-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:
expand-the-call-of-dentry_lru_del-in-dentry_kill.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

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

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From 01b6035190b024240a43ac1d8e9c6f964f5f1c63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 23:42:52 -0400
Subject: expand the call of dentry_lru_del() in dentry_kill()

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>

commit 01b6035190b024240a43ac1d8e9c6f964f5f1c63 upstream.

Cc "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <[email protected]>
---
 fs/dcache.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
fs/dcache.c +6 -1
@@ -499,7 +499,12 @@ relock:
 	if ((dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_PRUNE) && !d_unhashed(dentry))
 		dentry->d_op->d_prune(dentry);
 
-	dentry_lru_del(dentry);
+	if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_LRU_LIST) {
+		if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST))
+			d_lru_del(dentry);
+		else
+			d_shrink_del(dentry);
+	}
 	/* if it was on the hash then remove it */
 	__d_drop(dentry);
 	__list_del_entry(&dentry->d_child);

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

queue-3.14/new-helper-dentry_free.patch
queue-3.14/fold-try_prune_one_dentry.patch queue-3.14/expand-the-call-of-dentry_lru_del-in-dentry_kill.patch queue-3.14/fold-d_kill-and-d_free.patch queue-3.14/ipc-modify-message-queue-accounting-to-not-take-kernel-data-structures-into-account.patch queue-3.14/sg_start_req-make-sure-that-there-s-not-too-many-elements-in-iovec.patch