Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/17] xfs stable patches for 5.4.y (from v5.5)

Chandan Babu R
2022-09-22T09:44:51Z

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 05:33:59 PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 11:01:33AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 08:53:35AM +0530, Chandan Babu R wrote:
>> > Hi Greg,
>> >
>> > This 5.4.y backport series contains fixes from v5.5. The patchset has
>> > been acked by Darrick.
>> >
[...]
>> >
>>
>> All now queued up, thanks.
>
> Any specific reason why you didn't also include 2 other commits in this
> series, that fix issues that were created by some patches in this
> series?
>
> I am referring to:
> 496b9bcd62b0 ("xfs: fix use-after-free when aborting corrupt attr inactivation")
> 6da1b4b1ab36 ("xfs: fix an ABBA deadlock in xfs_rename")
>

I had not considered the possibility of fixes introducing regressions. I will
test these patches and send them to the mailing list soon. Thanks for pointing
out the missing patches.

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chandan