On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> wrote: > Amir, > > Am 30.03.2017 um 10:59 schrieb Amir Goldstein: >> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> wrote: >>> It is perfectly fine to link a tmpfile back using linkat(). >>> Since tmpfiles are created with a link count of 0 they appear >>> on the orphan list, upon re-linking the inode has to be removed >>> from the orphan list again. >>> >> >> Looks good. >> >>> Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> >>> Cc: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhau...@gmail.com> >>> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir7...@gmail.com >> >> typo: missing closing > > > Whoops, copied one byte too few from Thunderbird. :D > Will fix before pushing. >
It's worth mentioning the bug that Ralph reported. The fact that overlayfs mount in v4.11-rc causes corruption of ubifs is much more severe than what the current commit message implies (fix of a corner case). I would also add # v4.9 hint to stable tag, just to be nice ;-)
