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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, jack@suse.cz, jthumshirn@suse.de,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] dax: Check page->mapping isn't NULL" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:13:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181214071318.GB31355@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181211152241.GD6830@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 07:22:41AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 03:00:15PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-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>.
> 
> 
> >From ebcfdf7933e1c72dbe581e64064bc6b8bb5d8694 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:41:48 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] dax: Check page->mapping isn't NULL
> 
> commit c93db7bb6ef3251e0ea48ade311d3e9942748e1c upstream.
> 
> If we race with inode destroy, it's possible for page->mapping to be
> NULL before we even enter this routine, as well as after having slept
> waiting for the dax entry to become unlocked.
> 
> Fixes: c2a7d2a11552 ("filesystem-dax: Introduce dax_lock_mapping_entry()")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> ---
>  fs/dax.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Now applied, thanks.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2018-12-14  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-11 14:00 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] dax: Check page->mapping isn't NULL" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree gregkh
2018-12-11 15:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-14  7:13   ` Greg KH [this message]

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