FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ocfs2: drop acl cache for directories too" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 9c0f0a03e386f4e1df33db676401547e1b7800c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wengang Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 15:43:35 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ocfs2: drop acl cache for directories too

ocfs2_data_convert_worker() is currently dropping any cached acl info for FILE before down-converting meta lock. It should also drop for DIRECTORY. Otherwise the second acl lookup returns the cached one (from VFS layer) which could be already stale.

The problem we are seeing is that the acl changes on one node doesn't get refreshed on other nodes in the following case:

Node 1 Node 2
-------------- ----------------
getfacl dir1

getfacl dir1 <-- this is OK

setfacl -m u:user1:rwX dir1
getfacl dir1 <-- see the change for user1

getfacl dir1 <-- can't see change for user1

index 359524b7341f..801e60bab955 100644
@@ -3951,7 +3951,7 @@ static int ocfs2_data_convert_worker(struct ocfs2_lock_res *lockres,
 		oi = OCFS2_I(inode);
 		oi->ip_dir_lock_gen++;
 		mlog(0, "generation: %u\n", oi->ip_dir_lock_gen);
-		goto out;
+		goto out_forget;
 	}
 
 	if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))

@@ -3982,6 +3982,7 @@ static int ocfs2_data_convert_worker(struct ocfs2_lock_res *lockres,
 		filemap_fdatawait(mapping);
 	}
 
+out_forget:
 	forget_all_cached_acls(inode);
 
 out: