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

ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option

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: ext4-correct-documentation-for-grpid-mount-option.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 9f0372488cc9243018a812e8cfbf27de650b187b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: =?UTF-8?q?Ernesto=20A=2E=20Fern=C3=A1ndez?= ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:43:33 -0500 Subject: ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

From: Ernesto A. Fernández ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com

commit 9f0372488cc9243018a812e8cfbf27de650b187b upstream.

The grpid option is currently described as being the same as nogrpid.

Signed-off-by: Ernesto A. Fernández ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ data_err=ignore(*) Just print an error m data_err=abort Abort the journal if an error occurs in a file data buffer in ordered mode.

-grpid Give objects the same group ID as their creator. +grpid New objects have the group ID of their parent. bsdgroups

nogrpid (*) New objects have the group ID of their creator.

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/ext4-correct-documentation-for-grpid-mount-option.patch