Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] block: bugfix for Amiga partition overflow check patch

Michael Schmitz
2023-07-05T22:26:08Z

Hi Jens,

On 6/07/23 10:13, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> should be enough for it to go into stable from 5.2 and onwards.
>> OK - I wasn't certain whether you wanted the Fixes or stable tag dropped.
>>>> (Greg didn't seem to object to the Fixes: as such, just to the
>>>> incorrect version prereq)
>>> I think it's really confusing... A patch should only have a Fixes tag if
>>> it's fixing a specific bug in that patch. Either it is, in which case
>>> you would not need Cc stable at all since it's only in 6.5-rc, or it
>> It is fixing a bug in b6f3f28f60. I should have checked whether the
>> patch series had already gone to release, not just -rc, instead of
>> just adding the stable tag out of caution.
> But this is the confusion - if it's fixing a bug in b6f3f28f60, then why
> is it marked as needing to get backported much further back, predating
> that commit?

I see - it doesn't need to be backported that far back _alone_. It only
needs to be applied after  b6f3f28f60 once that one has been backported.

Cheers,

Michael