From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E496311C2E for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:38:59 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1757608740; cv=none; b=KB+/g5VYDwoWIW8ZQQUouMXVLU7qi0a/KG+NSKSF2yOfh3okannSs3RaDAHXVPnY+FYZEnsGQNvKgikJw4/tpSxhlsZkoqrXt9/yKEYoLvZ+AGl9WwEUsm/bH/zN+qjlKLvZxceb6BLG9guhYjNmA9pBMU2GgeZJyYP34RqUy/s= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1757608740; c=relaxed/simple; bh=jabD4evrIVNHDgvxkAG/fGajnn05guxDQTab6p3HNG8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=g/X579t7WX97kpU1g9vnB5JIIVhnCKGQgAwFRFq1NhrcjpLPlT4EwbK5lGP2x3ZC4fJ4+bB6AafG11LhpDJ+s2KSHLrnCFRM4ixpVr7e59jpiHnE4pMKfz6eVkSqfPkv8wv2tUOfGI1vv8kHbxowibk+dQX6Cba+1/Az9AF05Qk= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=k0qpKMT1; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="k0qpKMT1" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1E5DCC4CEF5; Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:38:58 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1757608739; bh=jabD4evrIVNHDgvxkAG/fGajnn05guxDQTab6p3HNG8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=k0qpKMT1Zv0kn315eevQKSgyVOgdlmXRr3TRj+ucVk6+Jg1OMvQQRiggrDCPdQOEl ABtYJxvrfrqeUdACMw+PoX4qdgdJ9I8lpDMPGd7akIiSVRoz85mkmgjMmeJsDg7wL7 wkCZEzYYHVEFaI/zDqbY81Zm1Vnp1SXjiTQ1yfWY= Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:38:56 +0200 From: Greg KH To: David Howells Cc: yangerkun , sfrench@samba.org, pc@manguebit.com, lsahlber@redhat.com, sprasad@microsoft.com, tom@talpey.com, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, stable@kernel.org, nspmangalore@gmail.com, ematsumiya@suse.de, yangerkun@huaweicloud.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] cifs: fix pagecache leak when do writepages Message-ID: <2025091139-control-reshape-638a@gregkh> References: <2025091109-happiness-cussed-d869@gregkh> <20250911030120.1076413-1-yangerkun@huawei.com> <2780505c-b531-7731-3c3d-910a22bf0802@huawei.com> <1955891.1757608316@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1955891.1757608316@warthog.procyon.org.uk> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 05:31:56PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > > Yes, please include the info as to why this is not a backport from > > upstream, and why it can only go into this one specific tree and get the > > developers involved to agree with this. > > Backporting the massive amount of changes to netfslib, fscache, cifs, afs, 9p, > ceph and nfs would kind of diminish the notion that this is a stable > kernel;-). Ok, then that's a good reason why, let's document that!