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Date:   Mon, 5 Apr 2021 22:09:12 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To:     Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs/epoll: restore waking from ep_done_scan()
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On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 20:22:26 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 05 Apr 2021, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >Tricky.  339ddb53d373 was merged in December 2019.  So do we backport
> >this fix?  Could any userspace code be depending upon the
> >post-339ddb53d373 behavior?
> 
> As with previous trouble caused by this commit, I vote for restoring the behavior
> backporting the fix, basically the equivalent of adding (which was my intention):
> 
> Fixes: 339ddb53d373 ("fs/epoll: remove unnecessary wakeups of nested epoll")

OK, I added the Fixes: line and the cc:stable line.