[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "ovl: root: copy attr" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ovl: root: copy attr

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos at szeredi.hu>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:11:59 +0100
Subject: ovl: root: copy attr

commit ed06e069775ad9236087594a1c1667367e983fb5 upstream.

We copy i_uid and i_gid of underlying inode into overlayfs inode.  Except
for the root inode.

Fix this omission.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos at szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/overlayfs/super.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index e38ee0f..ff82665 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -1053,6 +1053,9 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)

 	root_dentry->d_fsdata = oe;

+	ovl_copyattr(ovl_dentry_real(root_dentry)->d_inode,
+		     root_dentry->d_inode);
+
 	sb->s_magic = OVERLAYFS_SUPER_MAGIC;
 	sb->s_op = &ovl_super_operations;
 	sb->s_root = root_dentry;
--
1.9.1