From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34328 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932427AbdJJSRN (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:17:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:17:10 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Jan Kara , "HUANG Weller (CM/ESW12-CN)" , "George G. Davis" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , "Behme Dirk (CM/ESO2)" , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ext4 support for LTS kernels (was: Re: [PATCH 3.14] ext4: fix data exposure after a crash) Message-ID: <20171010181710.GL747@kroah.com> References: <146507681324370@kroah.com> <1467153108-104061-1-git-send-email-george_davis@mentor.com> <20160629074600.GB14082@quack2.suse.cz> <20171009110537.GH17917@quack2.suse.cz> <20171009132004.y6rale4k7oll3hab@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171009132004.y6rale4k7oll3hab@thunk.org> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 09:20:04AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 01:05:37PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Fri 06-10-17 10:04:41, HUANG Weller (CM/ESW12-CN) wrote: > > > I checked the latest 3.14 source code 3.14.79. I didn't found the below patch. > > > > Well, I'm not sure who runs the 3.14 stable tree (it's not listed at > > kernel.org). It's up to him to pick up patches... > > The announcement of 3.14's End of Life as a stable kernel series was > announced in September 2016. As far as I know, the fact that 3.14 is > no longer listed on kernel.org means that no one is maintaining 3.14 > after Greg K-H declared it to be EOL'ed. Yes, 3.14 is dead :) > On a side note, I just recently finished an effort to update the ext4 > patches for 3.14, 4.1, 4.4, and 4.9. I've sent those backports and > cherry pick requests to stable@vger.kernel.org. For details of my > work, at: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git > > There are testing notes in the signed git tags: > > ext4-4.9.54-1 > - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tag/?h=ext4-4.9.54-1 > ext4-4.4.91-1 > - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tag/?h=ext4-4.4.91-1 > ext4-4.1.44-1 > - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tag/?h=ext4-4.1.44-1 > ext4-3.18.74-1 > - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tag/?h=ext4-3.18.74-1 > > .... and on a "when Ted has time / interest basis", the ext4-3.18, > ext4-4.1, ext4-4.4, and ext-4.9 branches in the above repo will be > updated with a rebase against the latest LTS kernel and whatever > patches are needed to minimize xfstests failures that haven't yet > gotten accepted into the LTS kernel versions. Thanks so much for this work. I think I've gotten most of these for 4.9, 4.4, and 3.18, I've emailed about the ones that didn't apply. > Getting changes into android-common and/or various SOC's BSP kernels > is left as an exercise to the reader. android-common syncs with the lts stable releases, so they should get picked up by the SoC BSP kernels that way. As long as your SoC company is sane... thanks, greg k-h