Re: [PATCH 6.7 001/162] btrfs: fix deadlock with fiemap and extent locking

David Sterba
2024-03-11T18:48:23Z

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:15:31AM +0100, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> On 06.03.24 13:39, Filipe Manana wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 9:26 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> 6.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > It would be better to delay the backport of this patch (and the
> > followup fix) to any stable release, because it introduced another
> > regression for which there is a reviewed fix but it's not yet in
> > Linus' tree:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/cover.1709202499.git.fdmanana@suse.com/
>
> Those two missed 6.8 afaics. Will those be heading to mainline any time
> soon?

Yes, in the 6.9 pull request.

> And how fast afterwards will it be wise to backport them to 6.8?
> Will anyone ask Greg for that when the time has come?

The commits have stable tags and will be processed in the usual way.