From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9FC61372665; Wed, 1 Jul 2026 16:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782923593; cv=none; b=dc3phKgLtfSH3P/Cm/pY3KAvESfEFJYdtxkgxpF0SxG0PKmzO4KsihoHJsnVYvNykqtLkqRz7Zfo2Oq/Ae9RFaEaH9NuOw3SjV8oDjKTna7OIGxN0DBM5JPqz0pYc/VYHdNwr307Drbs2lDKo60jTCLxgjfvxr15tsZV2O1WkJQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782923593; c=relaxed/simple; bh=0O9t1tSW9YfYk8QA/2Mz/IGLCxAsLbduu3bCC9RWh80=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=VidtfDOoO7XHV3/n1Jef4VPwf/WKqkMjPa5KntYSHELT79huIcs6yP2+MmFQJytcBqZbRs73UfhIAQkW8LpZbywLhXFewhsy/xhOkuui4x7hJm86V7+312F1ScVEOzZ3UILj4VdUzyDL6iJzxxiDCMX4G65Fc90eLF/WV6HFZ7Q= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Cyqs4l3b; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Cyqs4l3b" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with UTF8SMTPSA id D543A1F000E9; Wed, 1 Jul 2026 16:33:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1782923590; bh=JgWpcCcEJlgI18zAnaxSSxs31O3rZqKIde8ESLBbl58=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=Cyqs4l3bKZWQQmmdEFKG4KeMAGlk09rG3dzqnFaYOS78zkoBGk+T+4LlOw2HlIu7G aUKhduciD+oTLynKp6RHPTayp0cE8K0l4iL1KtmrYlxenJOpxpfShccuy0UzRnoIo6 j9GIJrJqQIlmJJiD4u7e2HNhlfKcXow02C7YBRGmHLSn94rxIWn13Q/LW3fAG/SjKO EproLb5GRdFPnZORcWcSZaZwGZAKVindRMCEz6Sahg8rutD3jweoXQ6PMWLYZjn+QX nGKeKKYdgL6CL8saUrQZcoffTdH3t7ZcSGdQux7I44Buj8X29F5jLXfYV5wvUALB8U aMdmvxzZS0kwA== Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 09:33:10 -0700 From: "Darrick J. Wong" To: Hamza Mahfooz Cc: Carlos Maiolino , Amir Goldstein , Sasha Levin , Fedor Pchelkin , stable@vger.kernel.org, xfs-stable@lists.linux.dev, Christoph Hellwig , Catherine Hoang , Greg Kroah-Hartman , lvc-project@linuxtesting.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Leah Rumancik , Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.6 0/4] fix kernel crash for xfs/235 test Message-ID: <20260701163310.GB6517@frogsfrogsfrogs> References: <20260612233110.2-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20260625183421.GO6070@frogsfrogsfrogs> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 07:39:32PM -0400, Hamza Mahfooz wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 11:34:21AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 02:31:01PM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 11:19:25AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 7:33 PM Leah Rumancik wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I have changed teams so I no longer work on kernel and I don't believe > > > > > my xfs maintenance work was backfilled ;( > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 7:19 AM Carlos Maiolino wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 09:31:41AM -0400, Hamza Mahfooz wrote: > > > > > > > Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 09:13:45AM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 03:19:24PM -0400, Hamza Mahfooz wrote: > > > > > > > > > Cc: Carlos Maiolino > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > FWIW I don't maintain the stable trees I really don't have time for > > > > > > > > that. Darrick/Leah have been doing a best effort case for that, but > > > > > > > > again, this is mostly a best effort so we shouldn't expect them to be > > > > > > > > looking/picking up every single possible patch suggested for stable. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Now that you mention it, the xfs-stable mailing list seems to be pretty > > > > > > > much dead (i.e. the last time fixes from it were merged into stable was > > > > > > > almost a year ago). I guess no one is really working on it anymore? > > > > > > > > > > > > IIRC Darrick started it, I personally never worked on it, but I didn't > > > > > > follow the evolution there. > > > > > > > > I think at this point we can officially declare xfs in stable <= 6.6 > > > > unmaintained > > > > maybe need to send patches to LTS MAINTAINERS. > > > > > > > > The best chance in this case to apply the requested fix to 6.6.y is that the > > > > author (Darrick) approves it. > > > > > > Unfortunately this might be true. But let's wait for Darrick's input > > > please. He's on vacations this week so will be unfair to make any > > > decisions in this matter without his input. > > > Also he has been still poking people to tag patches with LTS versions > > > so even though he might not me dealing with the xfs-stable, he might still > > > be driving work on LTS trees. > > > > I've really only been doing QA work on 6.12/6.18 LTS. Ted Tso might > > still be doing the older ones. Catherine left Oracle last year. > > Any idea on potential paths forward for getting this series in > particular into 6.6.y? Run fstests, and if there are no new regressions, ask sasha/greg to queue it. --D