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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] writeback: fix use-after-free in finish_writeback_work()" failed to apply to 5.3-stable tree
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:40:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191014154034.GE18794@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wiE8oFcPHCMM11j0svKQWwM8nuhnQ9R1OdLbfum5ALvOg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 02:54:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 1:18 AM <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > The patch below does not apply to the 5.3-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>.
> 
> Hmm. It looks to me like 5.3 doesn't have the use-after-free problem,
> and that it was introduced by 5b9cce4c7eb0696558 ("writeback:
> Generalize and expose wb_completion")
> 
> So I think the "Fixes" tag is right, and the "Cc: stable" is wrong.

Yeap, sorry about that.  I think I forgot --contains when running
git-describe and mindlessly copied the output.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-14 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-12  8:17 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] writeback: fix use-after-free in finish_writeback_work()" failed to apply to 5.3-stable tree gregkh
2019-10-12 14:34 ` Sasha Levin
2019-10-12 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-14 15:40   ` Tejun Heo [this message]

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