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

afs: Populate group ID from vnode status

to the 3.18-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: afs-populate-group-id-from-vnode-status.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Mon Dec 18 15:03:25 CET 2017

From: Marc Dionne marc.dionne@auristor.com Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:27:43 +0000 Subject: afs: Populate group ID from vnode status

From: Marc Dionne marc.dionne@auristor.com

[ Upstream commit 6186f0788b31f44affceeedc7b48eb10faea120d ]

The group was hard coded to GLOBAL_ROOT_GID; use the group ID that was received from the server.

Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne marc.dionne@auristor.com Signed-off-by: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/afs/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/afs/inode.c +++ b/fs/afs/inode.c @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static int afs_inode_map_status(struct a

set_nlink(inode, vnode->status.nlink); inode->i_uid = vnode->status.owner; - inode->i_gid = GLOBAL_ROOT_GID; + inode->i_gid = vnode->status.group; inode->i_size = vnode->status.size; inode->i_ctime.tv_sec = vnode->status.mtime_server; inode->i_ctime.tv_nsec = 0;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marc.dionne@auristor.com are

queue-3.18/afs-populate-group-id-from-vnode-status.patch queue-3.18/afs-adjust-mode-bits-processing.patch queue-3.18/afs-populate-and-use-client-modification-time.patch