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Date:   Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:57:48 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc:     chengzhihao1@huawei.com, amir73il@gmail.com, brauner@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ovl: fix null pointer dereference in
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 02:35:38PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 6:30 PM <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-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>.
> >
> > To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
> >
> > git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
> > git checkout FETCH_HEAD
> > git cherry-pick -x 1a73f5b8f079fd42a544c1600beface50c63af7c
> 
> Applies and tests cleanly against v6.1.41.
> 
> Maybe the failure was due to dependency on commit b2dd05f107b1 ("ovl:
> let helper ovl_i_path_real() return the realinode")?

Odd, maybe?  I've queued this up now, thanks.

greg k-h