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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Samuel Wu <wusamuel@google.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz,
	raven@themaw.net, miklos@szeredi.hu, neil@brown.name,
	a.hindborg@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev,
	kees@kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	paul@paul-moore.com, casey@schaufler-ca.com,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, john.johansen@canonical.com,
	selinux@vger.kernel.org, borntraeger@linux.ibm.com,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, clm@meta.com,
	android-kernel-team <android-kernel-team@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/54] tree-in-dcache stuff
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:14:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260127201454.GQ3183987@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whME4fu2Gn+W7MPiFHqwn51VByhpttf-wHdhAqQAQXpqw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 10:39:04AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 at 23:42, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Note that I had to revert commit e5bf5ee26663 ("functionfs: fix the
> > open/removal races") from the stable backports, as it was causing issues
> > on the pixel devices it got backported to.  So perhaps look there?
> 
> Hmm. That commit is obviously still upstream, do we understand why it
> caused problems in the backports?

This is all I've seen:

| It has been reported to cause test problems in Android devices.  As the
| other functionfs changes were not also backported at the same time,
| something is out of sync.  So just revert this one for now and it can
| come back in the future as a patch series if it is tested.

My apologies for not following up on that one; Greg, could you give some
references to those reports?

  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-27 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20251118051604.3868588-1-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2026-01-27  0:56 ` [PATCH v4 00/54] tree-in-dcache stuff Samuel Wu
2026-01-27  7:42   ` Greg KH
2026-01-27 18:39     ` Linus Torvalds
2026-01-27 20:14       ` Al Viro [this message]
2026-01-28  8:53         ` Greg KH
2026-01-28  2:02     ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-28  4:59       ` Al Viro
2026-01-29  0:58         ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-29  3:23           ` Al Viro
2026-01-29 22:54             ` Al Viro
2026-01-30  1:16               ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-30  7:04                 ` Al Viro
2026-01-30 22:31                   ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-30 23:57                     ` Al Viro
2026-01-31  0:14                       ` Linus Torvalds
2026-01-31  1:08                         ` Al Viro
2026-01-31  1:11                           ` Linus Torvalds
2026-02-01  0:11                             ` Al Viro
2026-01-31  0:59                       ` Al Viro
2026-01-31  1:05                       ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-31  1:18                         ` Al Viro
2026-01-31  2:09                           ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-31  2:43                             ` Al Viro
2026-01-31 19:48                               ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-31 14:58                 ` Krishna Kurapati PSSNV
2026-01-31 20:02                   ` Samuel Wu

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