Re: [PATCH RESEND 4/8] dlm: fix creating multiple node structures

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 06:04:44PM -0400, Alexander Aring wrote:
> This patch will lookup existing nodes instead of always creating them
> when dlm_midcomms_addr() is called. The idea is here to create midcomms
> nodes when user space getting informed that nodes joins the cluster. This
> is the case when dlm_midcomms_addr() is called, however it can be called
> multiple times by user space to add several address configurations to one
> node e.g. when using SCTP. Those multiple times need to be filtered out
> and we doing that by looking up if the node exists before. Due configfs
> entry it is safe that this function gets only called once at a time.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 63e711b08160 ("fs: dlm: create midcomms nodes when configure")
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/dlm/midcomms.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Why does patch 4/8 have a cc: stable, when it depends on patches 1-3 as
well?  That is going to drive us crazy when it hits Linus's tree, how do
we know the dependancies here anymore?

thanks,

greg k-h