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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Cc: "rds-devel@oss.oracle.com" <rds-devel@oss.oracle.com>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>,
	"edumazet@google.com" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	"pabeni@redhat.com" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] net:rds: Fix possible deadlock in rds_message_put
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 09:59:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240207095914.49ba5293@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c63549d6771bfb1ab410338b2dcea3e3fedb415.camel@oracle.com>

On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 17:23:53 +0000 Allison Henderson wrote:
> > This is not a correct Fixes tag. Please look at git history  
> 
> Sorry, the fixes tag identifies the offending commit?  I think it's an
> existing bug since the code was introduced.  Which would be:
> 
> Fixes: bdbe6fbc6a2f (RDS: recv.c)
> 
> If that's not a useful tag, I can remove it too.  The syzbot bisect
> points to a virtio commit 1628c6877f37, but that doesn't look correct
> to me.  Let me know what you would prefer.  Thank you!

The initial commit for the code base is very useful to backporters!
It tells them "you have to backport this all the way down".
Lack of a Fixes tag says "I don't know where the bug was added".

Fixes tags are more about telling backporters how far to backport
than about blame.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-07 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-31 17:54 [PATCH v2 1/1] net:rds: Fix possible deadlock in rds_message_put allison.henderson
2024-02-07  2:48 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-02-07 17:23   ` Allison Henderson
2024-02-07 17:59     ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-02-07 20:17       ` Allison Henderson

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