[Acked] [Vivid][SRU][Pull-Request] Fixes for LP: #1479468

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:45:03PM -0500, Chris J Arges wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479468
> 
> The following changes since commit b146040071a57e0c91df9eeee7b592cd9216e3ff:
> 
>   UBUNTU: Ubuntu-3.19.0-26.27 (2015-07-28 18:25:05 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/arges/ubuntu-vivid.git lp1479468
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 69403dc50ba22c9057e2fac354d60bfadefeacec:
> 
>   fix a braino in ovl_d_select_inode() (2015-07-29 23:42:20 -0500)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Al Viro (1):
>       fix a braino in ovl_d_select_inode()
> 
> David Howells (3):
>       VFS: Add a fallthrough flag for marking virtual dentries
>       overlay: Call ovl_drop_write() earlier in ovl_dentry_open()
>       overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay
> 
>  fs/dcache.c              | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  fs/internal.h            |  1 +
>  fs/open.c                | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  fs/overlayfs/inode.c     | 25 ++++++++++--------------
>  fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h |  1 +
>  fs/overlayfs/super.c     |  1 +
>  include/linux/dcache.h   | 11 +++++++++++
>  include/linux/fs.h       |  2 --
>  8 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

Ugg, well none of these in isolation look too bad.  What sort of testing
has been done with these applied?  I am slightly concerned about the
changes to vfs_open() as they obviously interact with most everything.

If you can assure me this will be battered to death with a lot of
filesystem tests I guess it is ok.

Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>

-apw