Re: [PATCH 0/4] bcache: more fixes for v5.8-rc1

Jens Axboe
2020-06-14T22:48:57Z

On 6/14/20 10:53 AM, colyli@suse.de wrote:
> From: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> Here are more following up fixes for bcache v5.8-rc1.
>
> The two patches from me are minor clean up. Rested two patches
> are important.
>
> - Mauricio Faria de Oliveira contributes a fix for a potential
> kernel panic when users configures improper block size value
> to bcache backing device. This problem should be fixed as soon
> as possible IMHO.
> - Zhiqiang Liu contributes a fix for a potential deadlock (even quite
> hard to trigger), which I want to have it as soon as possible.
>
> Please take these patches for v5.8-rc1, or -rc2 if it is late for -rc1.

A few hours before -rc1 release is indeed too late. I'd only queue and
push anything this late if there was a very compelling reason to do so.

I've queued them up for -rc2.

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Jens Axboe