From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E691C10F11 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:02:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0411321900 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:02:20 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1556125340; bh=I0l476XyVzeji+kfFkiTE/STPvHXToQQfFFwfxuBYrk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=dpHDoFOB718DnzezE4NEAu12hdh4bGrXcburyZx/2gx9jCZ9JMI3sTd2ER7D8w3B+ 5BSHd5fCwBtlPAuQXO2834v6OOaVcJA63K1PNyjwfmFsBlF8rBoMGndP8QD/p0X85m Th0lQvGYXGKIeD+WsL08EmautDZk0/pAQtoBcf2s= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1732951AbfDXRCO (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:02:14 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:60984 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730844AbfDXRCO (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:02:14 -0400 Received: from localhost (62-193-50-229.as16211.net [62.193.50.229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F00602148D; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:02:12 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1556125333; bh=I0l476XyVzeji+kfFkiTE/STPvHXToQQfFFwfxuBYrk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=PkAtPdFuy5Bm1qOz2bZvKvkXVgOYz4xHJQC0liUOHKoSJml5QNFUH5j3iYOTuTOai 6aDXoGVOKew4ZAZfjgecThv3cxbCgtaCb/e/GiQ1wcQJQA1hHrRNErnh6X4hJ90Rcj sUZTHghsO427NjnZSHSrhTgUrDvB11K8EJVf7Hzk= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 19:02:11 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Sasha Levin , Linux List Kernel Mailing , stable , Kirill Smelkov , Michael Kerrisk , Yongzhi Pan , Jonathan Corbet , David Vrabel , Juergen Gross , Miklos Szeredi , Tejun Heo , Kirill Tkhai , Arnd Bergmann , Christoph Hellwig , Julia Lawall , Nikolaus Rath , Han-Wen Nienhuys , linux-fsdevel Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.0 59/66] fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write can run simultaneously without deadlock Message-ID: <20190424170211.GA4253@kroah.com> References: <20190424143341.27665-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20190424143341.27665-59-sashal@kernel.org> <20190424163415.GB21413@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.4 (2019-03-13) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 09:40:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:34 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > > > I think there is a follow-on patch for this one as well, that adds the > > proper "stream open" logic to all of the individual locations. > > That bulk one hasn't been applied yet, and wouldn't be appropriate for > stable anyway. It's 5.2 material. Ah, ok. > But... > > > But even with that, I don't think this is stable material, it should > > just be for 5.1 and newer kernels. > > We likely *will* have a fuse-only patch that uses stream_open() and > _will_ be marked for stable, but that hasn't actually happened yet > either. But if/when that happens, then this infrastructure patch will > indeed be needed in stable. Ok, I'll add this to my list of things to apply sometime in the future when it shows up. thanks, greg k-h