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

Greg KH
2022-09-22T10:04:17Z

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 02:46:16PM +0530, Chandan Babu R wrote:
> 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.

Ok, let me drop these from the queue right now then, so that we don't
end up adding more problems then you are fixing :)

Please resend the whole new series again when they are ready.

thanks,

greg k-h