Re: stable patch 42fac18 missing from linux-6.6

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 12:07:42PM +0300, Alex Lyakas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 06:36:44PM +0300, Alex Lyakas wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > The following patch [1]:
> > > "42fac18 btrfs: check delayed refs when we're checking if a ref exists"
> > > has been marked as
> > > "CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+"
> > > but I do not see that it has been backported to linux-6.6.y branch.
> > >
> > > Can this patch be picked up in the next version of linux-6.6 please?
> >
> > It does not apply cleanly there at all, which is why we did not apply it
> > already.  How did you test this change works in this tree?
> Hi Greg,
> Thank you for your response.
> 
> >
> > If you want it here, great, can you provide a backported and tested
> > version?
> I backported the patch and tested it to the best of my ability. I was
> able to test the part where the reference exists in the extent tree,
> which means the patch doesn't break existing functionality. However, I
> was not able to test the case where we only have the delayed
> reference.

Then it's hard to know if it works :(

> Please let me know if this is still good enough, so that I can post
> this patch for review here (or on linux-stable-commits?).

linux-stable-commits is just for when we apply stuff to the tree,
stable@vger.kernel.org is for submitting new stuff.

If you think your backport is correct, sure, submit it, it's your call.

thanks,

greg k-h