From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
stable@kernel.org, Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 27/37] ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:54:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191213005449.GG12996@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191212151706.GA204354@mit.edu>
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:17:06AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 03:04:54PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > I'm confused; this was explicitly cc'ed to stable@kernel.org, so why
>> > is your AUTOSEL picking this up? I would have thought this would get
>> > picked up via the normal stable kernel processes.
>>
>> My mistake, appologies.
>
>No worries; the intent was that it be backported to stable, and I
>don't really care with path it takes.
>
>I just wanted to make sure there wouldn't be confusion if you
>backported it to stable, and then Greg tried and then got a merge
>conflict. (Or worse, if the patch was one of the ones where it can be
>successfully applied *twice* w/o a patch conflict; I'm not sure if git
>cherry-pick is smarter than patch in this regard, but I don't think it
>is?)
This one was just due to me running a bit faster then usual. I generally
don't filter out stable tagged commits and Greg just gets to them faster
than me (the delay on AUTOSEL is bigger than stable tagged commits).
--
Thanks,
Sasha
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-13 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20191211153813.24126-1-sashal@kernel.org>
2019-12-11 15:37 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 12/37] jbd2: Fix statistics for the number of logged blocks Sasha Levin
2019-12-11 15:38 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 27/37] ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely Sasha Levin
2019-12-11 16:19 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-11 18:25 ` Greg KH
2019-12-11 20:04 ` Sasha Levin
2019-12-12 15:17 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-13 0:54 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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