From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:42735 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750943AbcGLMlo (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:41:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [added to the 4.1 stable tree] tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page To: Hugh Dickins References: <1468292170-22812-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> <1468292170-22812-74-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> <2eee8b82-1453-0fce-e250-1807e02b90fd@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka , stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, Anthony Romano , Brandon Philips , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds From: Sasha Levin Message-ID: <5784E579.7050900@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:41:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/12/2016 07:58 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> > On 07/12/2016 04:52 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: >>> > > From: Anthony Romano >>> > > >>> > > This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any >>> > > objections, please let us know. >> > >> > Hugh says the patch is broken, shouldn't go to stable without the fix: >> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=146819440406829&w=2 > Thanks, Vlastimil: yes, this patch here should not go in without > upstream commit 7f556567036cb7f89aabe2f0954b08566b4efb53 > ("tmpfs: fix regression hang in fallocate undo") > on top. And of course the same applies to 3.18. Added to both 4.1 and 3.18, thanks!