Re: [PATCH 5.13 089/151] ovl: fix deadlock in splice write

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-15T13:58:49Z

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 02:54:35PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Looks like upstream commit b91b6b019fd ("ovl: fix deadlock in splice
> write") needs to be added to linux-5.4.y.
>
> The reason is that commit 82a763e61e2b ("ovl: simplify file splice")
> was backported to v5.4.155, and the above commit fixes this.
>
> Applies cleanly and I reviewed that the backport is correct.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h