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

Jens Axboe
2023-07-05T22:14:03Z

>> 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?

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Jens Axboe