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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: colyli@suse.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcache: Make gc wakeup sane, remove set_task_state()
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:16:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170123141634.GA12980@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1485177612-40394-1-git-send-email-colyli@suse.de>

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 09:20:12PM +0800, colyli@suse.de wrote:
> Hi stable maintainers,
> 
> This patch is from Kent, upstream commit ID is be628be09563.
> Olav Reinert <seroton10@gmail.com> reports a kerenl crash from
> bcache (boo#1021260) and Oliver Nuekum points out this patch fixes the problem. 

"boo"?

> I send this patch to stable@kernel.vger.org, hope this patch can be taken care
> in stable kernels.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Coly Li
> 
> Here I attach the original patch, just FYI.
> ---
> From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 20:31:17 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] bcache: Make gc wakeup sane, remove set_task_state()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>

No changelog text?  Worst short changelog description ever?

This gives me no context of what is going on here.  Why does this fix a
bug?  What kernel(s) should it be backported to?

I need some more help here please.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-23 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-23 13:20 [PATCH] bcache: Make gc wakeup sane, remove set_task_state() colyli
2017-01-23 14:16 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-01-23 14:45   ` Coly Li
2017-01-23 14:54     ` Greg KH
2017-02-20 12:31       ` Greg KH
2017-02-20 13:12         ` Kent Overstreet
2017-02-20 14:06           ` Greg KH
2017-02-20 14:36             ` Coly Li
2017-02-20 15:19               ` Greg KH

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