Re: [PATCH 4.4 133/146] ovl: Copy up underlying inodes ->i_mode to overlay inode

[Eryu Guan]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 04:52:16PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> Did a fix for this ever get into Linus's tree?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Yes, please see commit c1892c37769c ("vfs: fix deadlock in
file_remove_privs() on overlayfs"), which is tagged as "stable".

Thanks,
Eryu