Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ovl: support the FS_IOC_FS[SG]ETXATTR ioctls" failed to apply to 5.1-stable tree

On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 12:45 PM gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:

The patch below does not apply to the 5.1-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

thanks,

greg k-h

FYI, the failure to apply this patch would be resolved after you picked up "ovl: check the capability before cred overridden" for stable, please hold off from taking this patch just yet, because it has a bug, whose fix wasn't picked upstream yet.

Thanks, Amir.