From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
pjaroszynski@nvidia.com, william.kucharski@oracle.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iomap: Revert "fs/iomap.c: get/put the page in iomap_page_create/release()"
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 19:04:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181222000458.GH86645@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181221074042.GA8633@kroah.com>
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 08:40:42AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 07:57:21AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 01:28:25PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 11:23:24PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> > > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>> > >
>> > > This reverts commit 61c6de667263184125d5ca75e894fcad632b0dd3.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> > <formletter>
>> >
>> > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
>> > stable kernel tree. Please read:
>> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
>> > for how to do this properly.
>> >
>> > </formletter>
>>
>> This wasn't a stable kernel patch submission. This was to let the
>> stable kernel maintainers know that a commit that was submitted for
>> stable kernel inclusion (via a cc stable in the commit message) is
>> buggy and should not be backported. i.e. if you've already queued/
>> backported 61c6de6672 then you need to drop it from your trees.
>
>As the commit 61c6de667263 ("fs/iomap.c: get/put the page in
>iomap_page_create/release()") was tagged for a stable release (and is in
>4.19.11) it would be nice to also add the cc: stable in the revert.
>When you just blindly send it to the stable mailing list, we have no
>idea what to do with it, hence the automated form letter that was sent.
>
>Now that this is in Linus's tree, I'll dig out the revert and remember
>to queue it up for the next round of stable updates, thanks for letting
>us know.
I've queued the revert for 4.19.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-22 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-20 12:23 [PATCH] iomap: Revert "fs/iomap.c: get/put the page in iomap_page_create/release()" Dave Chinner
2018-12-20 12:28 ` Greg KH
2018-12-20 20:57 ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-21 7:40 ` Greg KH
2018-12-21 22:06 ` Eric Sandeen
2018-12-22 0:04 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2018-12-20 17:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-20 20:53 ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-20 22:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-12-21 9:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-21 19:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-12-21 19:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-21 19:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-12-21 21:58 ` Dave Chinner
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