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Patch "ovl: fix working on distributed fs as lower layer" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

ovl: fix working on distributed fs as lower layer

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:
ovl-fix-working-on-distributed-fs-as-lower-layer.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.

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From b5891cfab08fe3144a616e8e734df7749fb3b7d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:22:16 +0300
Subject: ovl: fix working on distributed fs as lower layer

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>

commit b5891cfab08fe3144a616e8e734df7749fb3b7d0 upstream.

This adds missing .d_select_inode into alternative dentry_operations.

Fixes 7c03b5d45b8e ("ovl: allow distributed fs as lower layer")
Fixes 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay")
---
 fs/overlayfs/super.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
fs/overlayfs/super.c +1 -0
@@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ static const struct dentry_operations ov
 
 static const struct dentry_operations ovl_reval_dentry_operations = {
 	.d_release = ovl_dentry_release,
+	.d_select_inode = ovl_d_select_inode,
 	.d_revalidate = ovl_dentry_revalidate,
 	.d_weak_revalidate = ovl_dentry_weak_revalidate,
 };

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

queue-4.4/ovl-ignore-lower-entries-when-checking-purity-of-non-directory-entries.patch queue-4.4/ovl-fix-working-on-distributed-fs-as-lower-layer.patch