From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
jack@suse.cz, stable@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] dax: fix PMD data corruption when fault races with write" failed to apply to 4.10-stable tree
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 12:25:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170523102552.GE28565@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170519195412.GA14926@linux.intel.com>
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 01:54:12PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 09:26:31AM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.10-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> The patch below is a backport of:
>
> commit 876f29460cbd ("dax: fix PMD data corruption when fault races with write")
>
> to v4.10.16. This was patch 5 in the series.
>
> This patch still needs a backport of the following ext4 commit (which was
> patch 3 in the series) from Jan to work correctly:
>
> commit fb26a1cbed8c ("ext4: return to starting transaction in ext4_dax_huge_fault()")
Thanks for this, but 4.10 is now end-of-life, so I'm not going to worry
about the ext4 patch :)
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-23 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-18 7:26 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] dax: fix PMD data corruption when fault races with write" failed to apply to 4.10-stable tree gregkh
2017-05-19 19:54 ` Ross Zwisler
2017-05-23 10:25 ` Greg KH [this message]
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