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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Remove easily user-triggerable BUG from generic_setlease
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:34:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxGuoxbdxy3uKX063vZ1xSRhshRyWf_UhMnDL_by7j9Sg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120723152038.GB623@fieldses.org>

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:20 AM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
>
> So we need something like the following, backported to 2.6.anything.

Please add a note about the 3.2+ version of this patch (well, totally
different patch), and why this particular patch isn't needed there.

For stable, we should always have a pointer to the patch in mainline,
and if mainline has a different solution, and note about *why*
mainline has that different solution.

             Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-23 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-13 17:35 Remove easily user-triggerable BUG from generic_setlease Dave Jones
2012-07-13 17:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-13 17:50   ` Dave Jones
2012-07-23 15:20   ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-07-23 18:34     ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2012-07-23 19:04       ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-07-23 19:09         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-23 19:17           ` [PATCH] locks: fix checking of fcntl_setlease argument J. Bruce Fields

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