From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:43116 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731907AbeLVAFA (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2018 19:05:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 19:04:58 -0500 From: Sasha Levin To: Greg KH Cc: Dave Chinner , 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()" Message-ID: <20181222000458.GH86645@sasha-vm> References: <20181220122324.17082-1-david@fromorbit.com> <20181220122825.GA17138@kroah.com> <20181220205721.GD4205@dastard> <20181221074042.GA8633@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181221074042.GA8633@kroah.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 >> > > >> > > This reverts commit 61c6de667263184125d5ca75e894fcad632b0dd3. >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > 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. >> > >> > >> >> 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