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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 10:04:40 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ext4 patches for 4.4.y
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 12:59:27AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Hi Greg and Ted,
> 
> I've been looking at ext4 history the past couple of days seeing if the
> patches that you attempted to apply from 4.17-rc1 were relevant and I
> noticed a couple from previous 4.x versions that seem like they should
> be applied here, as they are clean picks and tagged for stable:
> 
> 74dae4278546 ("ext4: fix crashes in dioread_nolock mode")
> c755e251357a ("ext4: fix deadlock between inline_data and ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea()")
> 
> I've been running them for the day and not had any issues (though I
> didn't have any before). If there are any objections, let me know!

Neither of them apply to the 4.4.y tree, can you send me backports that
do work?

thanks,

greg k-h