This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
reiserfs: remove unneeded i_version bump
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: reiserfs-remove-unneeded-i_version-bump.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 stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Thu Feb 1 14:00:34 CET 2018
From: Jeff Layton jlayton@redhat.com Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:20:15 -0400 Subject: reiserfs: remove unneeded i_version bump
From: Jeff Layton jlayton@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit 9f97df50c52c2887432debb6238f4e43567386a5 ]
The i_version field in reiserfs is not initialized and is only ever updated here. Nothing ever views it, so just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton jlayton@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/reiserfs/super.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c @@ -2521,7 +2521,6 @@ out: return err; if (inode->i_size < off + len - towrite) i_size_write(inode, off + len - towrite); - inode->i_version++; inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode); mark_inode_dirty(inode); return len - towrite;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlayton@redhat.com are
queue-4.9/lockd-fix-list_add-double-add-caused-by-legacy-signal-interface.patch queue-4.9/reiserfs-remove-unneeded-i_version-bump.patch