Request to include a couple of fixes to stable branches

Request to include a couple of fixes to stable branches

[Shyam Prasad N]

Hi stable maintainers,

We seem to have missed adding the stable tag to a couple of important
patches that went upstream for fs/smb/client. Can you please include
them in all the stable trees?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4f1fffa2376922f3d1d506e49c0fd445b023a28e
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=79520587fe42cd4988aff8695d60621e689109cb

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Regards,
Shyam

Re: Request to include a couple of fixes to stable branches

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 07:11:48PM +0530, Shyam Prasad N wrote:
> Hi stable maintainers,
> 
> We seem to have missed adding the stable tag to a couple of important
> patches that went upstream for fs/smb/client. Can you please include
> them in all the stable trees?
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4f1fffa2376922f3d1d506e49c0fd445b023a28e
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=79520587fe42cd4988aff8695d60621e689109cb

These do not apply properly at all to any stable kernel trees, did you
get them to work?  How did you test this?

Please send a set of working backports and we will be glad to apply
them.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: Request to include a couple of fixes to stable branches

[Shyam Prasad N]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 8:41 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 07:11:48PM +0530, Shyam Prasad N wrote:
> > Hi stable maintainers,
> >
> > We seem to have missed adding the stable tag to a couple of important
> > patches that went upstream for fs/smb/client. Can you please include
> > them in all the stable trees?
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4f1fffa2376922f3d1d506e49c0fd445b023a28e
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=79520587fe42cd4988aff8695d60621e689109cb
>
> These do not apply properly at all to any stable kernel trees, did you
> get them to work?  How did you test this?
>
> Please send a set of working backports and we will be glad to apply
> them.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Hi Greg,

I have not applied these to stable kernel versions yet.
So no testing has been run on stable trees yet.
Let me work on patches to the stable trees and share them with you soon.

All the tests so far have been with the mainline kernel.
The testing involved simulated network disconnects when the Linux
kernel source code was being copied into the SMB share.
Our team has been running stress tests on the mainline kernel, and
there's nothing alarming seen so far.
Also, these changes have not regressed any of the xfstests.

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Regards,
Shyam