Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] quota: Generate warnings for DQUOT_SPACE_NOFAIL allocations" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.13-stable tree?

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:42:02PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun 15-10-17 15:34:33, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.13-stable tree.
> > 
> > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
> > 
> > I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to 
> > <stable@vger.kernel.org> and let me know why this patch should be
> > applied.  Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
> > seen again.
> 
> So I guess your complaint is that the problem is not serious enough to
> warrant a stable fix? My thinking was:
> 
> 1) This is a userspace visible regression caused by the below mentioned
>    commit. 
> 2) It can result in quota grace times not to be obeyed properly although in
>    practice it would be hard to come up with a scenario where this would
>    seriously matter (as they are likely to be setup properly on the next
>    write).


I would like to say I was thinking deep thoughts like this, but what I
really was looking at was this in the patch:

> > Fixes: 7b9ca4c61bc278b771fb57d6290a31ab1fc7fdac

Which showd up in 4.14-rc1, and as such, doesn't make much sense for
4.13-stable :)

thanks,

greg k-h