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Patch "NFS: Fix a typo in nfs_rename()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

NFS: Fix a typo in nfs_rename()

to the 4.9-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:
nfs-fix-a-typo-in-nfs_rename.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017

From: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 15:28:04 -0500
Subject: NFS: Fix a typo in nfs_rename()

From: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit d803224c84be067754db7fa58a93f36f61566493 ]

On successful rename, the "old_dentry" is retained and is attached to the "new_dir", so we need to call nfs_set_verifier() accordingly.

---
 fs/nfs/dir.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
fs/nfs/dir.c +1 -1
@@ -2098,7 +2098,7 @@ out:
 		if (new_inode != NULL)
 			nfs_drop_nlink(new_inode);
 		d_move(old_dentry, new_dentry);
-		nfs_set_verifier(new_dentry,
+		nfs_set_verifier(old_dentry,
 					nfs_save_change_attribute(new_dir));
 	} else if (error == -ENOENT)
 		nfs_dentry_handle_enoent(old_dentry);

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

queue-4.9/nfs-fix-a-typo-in-nfs_rename.patch