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On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 09:48:34 -0400 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> > These patches seem like unrelated fixups that you've discovered along the way,
> > and don't belong as part of the already rather large series, unless I'm missing
> > something here.
> > 
> > Thanks, Lorenzo
> 
> I think you are mising that they are a dependency, not unrelated.
> For example, this issue gets worse with the patchset as there are more
> places that manipulate flags without atomics. No?
> 
> 
> You are welcome to send this to stable, but I think stable rules
> preclude theoretical bugfixes.

I agree with Lorenzo, please - let's have fixes separated out.  After
all, the rest of the series might never be merged (sorry, it happens).

Whether each fix gets a cc:stable is TBD, case-by-case - it depends on
the expected userspace impact.