Re: request for inclusion of 04197b341f23 ("xfs: don't BUG() on mixed direct and mapped I/O")

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 06:43:34AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 06:42:21AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 01:44:30PM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 25.07.2017 13:43, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> > > > On 07/25/17 08:47, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> > > >> I'd like to request the aforementioned patch to be included into stable
> > > >> kernels. I've attached the 4.4 backport, the patch got introduced in
> > > >> 4.10 so for 4.9 it will likely be able to apply cleanly, for 4.4 it
> > > >> needed a bit of adjustment.
> > > > 
> > > > It has been in 4.9-stable since January, see:
> > > > 
> > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/fs/xfs?h=linux-4.9.y&id=3978c5bb004312fd267aed7279fe64b119e126b0
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Strange, it's missing a stable tag
> > 
> > What does that have to do with anything?  Lots of patches get asked to
> > be included that don't have stable tags, just like you just did :)
> > 
> > Also, please always include the original git commit id of the patch you
> > wish to have included with your request so that I don't have to turn
> > around and ask for it...
> 
> Ah nevermind, it was in the subject, I haven't had my morning coffee
> yet...

Oh, and I need an ack from the xfs maintainers to be able to take this,
there must be some reason they didn't backport it like they did for a
number of other xfs patches...

thanks,

greg k-h