Re: Pick commit 2729cfdcfa ("ext4: use ext4_journal_start/stop for fast commit transactions")

Greg KH
2023-04-28T07:32:40Z

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 06:24:59PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
>
> recently I've debugged a deadlock issue in ext4 fast commit feature in our
> openSUSE Leap kernel. Checking with upstream I've found out the issue was
> accidentally fixed by commit 2729cfdcfa1c ("ext4: use
> ext4_journal_start/stop for fast commit transactions"). Can you please pick
> up this commit into the stable tree? The problem has been there since fast
> commit began to exist (in 5.10-rc1) so 5.10 and 5.15 stable trees need the
> fix. Thanks!

This commit does not apply to those branches, so how was it tested?

Can you send us backported, and tested, versions of this commit so that
we can apply them?

thanks,

greg k-h