Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751997AbaLOQia (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:38:30 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-f45.google.com ([209.85.218.45]:52867 "EHLO mail-oi0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750767AbaLOQi0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:38:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141215163419.GA1351@kroah.com> References: <20141214201823.543296369@linuxfoundation.org> <20141214201823.978185416@linuxfoundation.org> <20141215154650.GA6542@vader> <20141215163419.GA1351@kroah.com> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:38:26 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: O_Q0mzOBCGguDApnnNYwDkO-kK0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 15/19] move d_rcu from overlapping d_child to overlapping d_alias From: Josh Boyer To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , Al Viro Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:46:50AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 12:21:26PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> >3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> > >> >------------------ >> > >> >From: Al Viro >> > >> >commit 946e51f2bf37f1656916eb75bd0742ba33983c28 upstream. >> > >> >Signed-off-by: Al Viro >> >Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman >> >> I noticed you don't have this (and the child commit) queued for 3.17.y. > > That is because: > >> The backport wasn't exactly straight-forward because of the d_external >> stuff, but I took a swing at it. After that, the other commit was a >> quick cherry-pick. > > It wasn't a "simple" backport, and I didn't have the time. I'm also > going to drop 3.17 real-soon-now. Right, figured. Fedora isn't going to rebase the stable releases to 3.18 until 3.18.2-ish, and this fixes an issue so I thought I'd give it a try. >> Al, does the below look correct for a backport on top of 3.17.6? It >> builds, but I haven't tested it yet. > > Testing would be great to do :) Working on it. Just wanted to send it out early in case Al spotted something obviously wrong and wanted to yell at me for it. josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/