Re: [PATCH v4 00/54] tree-in-dcache stuff

Al Viro
2026-01-27T20:13:32Z

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 10:39:04AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 at 23:42, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Note that I had to revert commit e5bf5ee26663 ("functionfs: fix the
> > open/removal races") from the stable backports, as it was causing issues
> > on the pixel devices it got backported to. So perhaps look there?
>
> Hmm. That commit is obviously still upstream, do we understand why it
> caused problems in the backports?

This is all I've seen:

| It has been reported to cause test problems in Android devices. As the
| other functionfs changes were not also backported at the same time,
| something is out of sync. So just revert this one for now and it can
| come back in the future as a patch series if it is tested.

My apologies for not following up on that one; Greg, could you give some
references to those reports?