Am Donnerstag, 20. September 2018, 04:30:41 CEST schrieb Joel Stanley:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 at 07:30, Richard Weinberger <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > This reverts commit 11a6fc3dc743e22fb50f2196ec55bee5140d3c52.
> > UBIFS wants to assert that xattr operations are only issued on files
> > with positive link count. The said patch made this operations return
> > -ENOENT for unlinked files such that the asserts will no longer trigger.
> > This was wrong since xattr operations are perfectly fine on unlinked
> > files.
> > Instead the assertions need to be fixed/removed.
> >
> > Cc: <[email protected]>
> > Fixes: 11a6fc3dc743 ("ubifs: xattr: Don't operate on deleted inodes")
> > Reported-by: Koen Vandeputte <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
> 
> The bad commit 11a6fc3dc743 was included in 4.18.7, and broke our
> systems which use overlayfs on top of ubifs.
> 
> This patch didn't apply cleanly for me to 4.18.8 (an encoding issue?),
> but I did a revert of the offending commit which did the trick.
> 
> Tested-by: Joel Stanley <[email protected]>

Thanks a lot for testing and sorry for the breakage. :-(

Thanks,
//richard


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