Re: Patch "CIFS: reconnect thread reschedule itself" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:07:47PM +0100, Germano Percossi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 20/04/17 12:44, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:10:00PM +0100, Germano Percossi wrote:
> > > The reason why I asked it's because I did not receive any
> > > "Failed" notification, so I assumed you did not even try.
> > 
> > I tried, but for patches without any specific "Fixes:" tag, I have to
> > just guess that if the patch does not apply, then it was not wanted
> > to go that far back.
> > 
> 
> You were right in your assumption about 18ea43113f: it could be ported
> but it is not so important for 3.18 and 4.4 because we are not using
> persistent handles there.
> 
> For what concerns a0918f1ce6 "remove bad network.." on 3.18 I just ran
> git cherry-pick a0918f1ce6
> on stable/linux-3.18.y without any problem.
> Unless you use other commands with fuzz level lower than 2
> it should apply as is.

Odd, it does apply, thanks.  I'll apply it for the next 3.18-stable
release after the current -rc one is released in a few days.

thanks for researching this.

greg k-h