Patch "ovl: update ctx->pos on impure dir iteration" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

    ovl: update ctx->pos on impure dir iteration

to the 4.14-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:
ovl-update-ctx-pos-on-impure-dir-iteration.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

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

From: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:35:21 +0200
Subject: ovl: update ctx->pos on impure dir iteration

From: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>

commit b02a16e6413a2f782e542ef60bad9ff6bf212f8a upstream.

This fixes a regression with readdir of impure dir in overlayfs that is shared to VM via 9p fs.

---
 fs/overlayfs/readdir.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -645,7 +645,10 @@ static int ovl_iterate_real(struct file
 			return PTR_ERR(rdt.cache);
 	}
 
-	return iterate_dir(od->realfile, &rdt.ctx);
+	err = iterate_dir(od->realfile, &rdt.ctx);
+	ctx->pos = rdt.ctx.pos;
+
+	return err;
 }
 
 

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

queue-4.14/ovl-pass-ovl_get_nlink-parameters-in-right-order.patch queue-4.14/ovl-update-ctx-pos-on-impure-dir-iteration.patch