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Date:   Sun, 26 Jan 2020 20:05:53 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
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        Jonathan Billings <jsbillings@jsbillings.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 325/639] afs: Fix AFS file locking to allow fine
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On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 07:57:03PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2020-01-24 10:28:15, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 68ce801ffd82e72d5005ab5458e8b9e59f24d9cc ]
> > 
> > Fix AFS file locking to allow fine grained locks as some applications, such
> > as firefox, won't work if they can't take such locks on certain state files
> > - thereby preventing the use of kAFS to distribute a home directory.
> > 
> > Note that this cannot be made completely functional as the protocol only
> > has provision for whole-file locks, so there exists the possibility
> 
> Is this suitable for -stable?

Yes, it fixes a bug.