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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:38:36 -0500
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>,
	stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>,
	dm-devel@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: Patch "dm delay: for short delays, use kthread instead of timers
 and wq" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 06:28:16PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
>
>On Wed, 29 Nov 2023, Christian Loehle wrote:
>
>> Hi Mikulas,
>> Agreed and thanks for fixing.
>> Has this been selected for stable because of:
>> 6fc45b6ed921 ("dm-delay: fix a race between delay_presuspend and delay_bio")
>> If so, I would volunteer do the backports for that for you at least.
>
>I wouldn't backport this patch - it is an enhancement, not a bugfix, so it
>doesn't qualify for the stable kernel backports.

Right - this watch was selected as a dependency for 6fc45b6ed921
("dm-delay: fix a race between delay_presuspend and delay_bio").

In general, unless it's impractical, we'd rather take a dependency chain
rather than deal with a non-trivial backport as those tend to have
issues longer term.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha