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Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:17:00 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: (resend) [PATCH [linux-4.14.y]] dm cache: submit writethrough
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 02:38:52PM -0500, John Donnelly wrote:
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>> On Jul 27, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:00:14AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>>> This mail needs to be saent to stable@vger.kernel.org (now cc'd).
>>>
>>> Greg et al: please backport 2df3bae9a6543e90042291707b8db0cbfbae9ee9
>>
>> Hm, what's the issue that this patch addresses? It's not clear from the
>> commit message.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Sasha
>
>HI Sasha ,
>
>In an off-line conversation I had with Mike , he indicated that :
>
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>commit 1b17159e52bb31f982f82a6278acd7fab1d3f67b
>Author: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
>Date:   Fri Feb 28 18:00:53 2020 -0500
>
>   dm bio record: save/restore bi_end_io and bi_integrity
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>
>commit 248aa2645aa7fc9175d1107c2593cc90d4af5a4e
>Author: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
>Date:   Fri Feb 28 18:11:53 2020 -0500
>
>   dm integrity: use dm_bio_record and dm_bio_restore
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>
>Were picked up  in  "stable" kernels picked up even though
>neither was marked for stable@vger.kernel.org
>
>Adding this missing  commit :
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> 2df3bae9a6543e90042291707b8db0cbfbae9ee9
>
>
>Completes the series

Should we just revert those two commits instead if they're not needed?

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha