Message-ID: <1415217493.3398.11.camel@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2 019/102] xfs: don't dirty buffers beyond EOF
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        akpm@linux-foundation.org, Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:58:13 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20141104070908.GU16186@dastard>
References: <lsq.1414880882.522510247@decadent.org.uk>
	 <lsq.1414880883.633041348@decadent.org.uk> <20141104070908.GU16186@dastard>
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On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 18:09 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 10:28:03PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 3.2.64-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me k=
now.
>=20
> I'm not sure it's a good idea to pull stuff like this back into
> really old stable kernels.

OK, then I'll drop this.

> This was part of a much larger series of
> bug fixes that were fairly carefully tested. I very much doubt that
> there is specific XFS test coverage on these older kernels that
> would determine if this has introduced problems or not....
[...]

No, I'm not testing XFS at all.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong.

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