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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ovl: hash non-dir by lower inode for
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 12:53:24PM -0300, Rafael David Tinoco wrote:
> > What bug?  Please never top-post, you loose all context :(
> 
> Won't happen again.
> 
> Summary is this:
> 
> commit 764baba80168ad3adafb521d2ab483ccbc49e344
> Author: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
> Date:   Sun Feb 4 15:35:09 2018 +0200
> 
>     ovl: hash non-dir by lower inode for fsnotify
> 
> INFO: inotify issue with non-dir non-upper files in overlayfs exists
> in LTS <= v4.14.
> INFO: LTP inotify08 test fails on * v4.14 and bellow * and should be skipped.
> 
> And message was informative only (clearly didn't work). Either way, do
> you think it's worth informing existing LTS bugs, found by test
> tooling, here ?

Why can't we fix those bugs in the stable kernel releases?  Is it too
difficult to do so?

thanks,

greg k-h