linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [Stable-review] [116/165] ext4: dont return to userspace after freezing the fs with a mutex held

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Date:	Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:48:06 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable-review@...nel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [stable] [Stable-review] [116/165] ext4: dont return to
 userspace after freezing the fs with a mutex held

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:02:45PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 08/02/2010 07:04 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> > We have reports about this patch breaking lvm snapshhots. Eric, there is a patch
> > mentioned which is supposed to fix things but its not upstream, yet.
> > Do you know what happened to that?
> 
> right, patch below is needed to fix things.
> 
> Ted just acked it on the list recently; Greg, I'd either drop 116/165
> for now, or include the patch below which should be upstream soon...

I can't take anything that isn't upstream yet.

And I just released with this patch in the kernel, should I do a revert
and do a new release?

thanks,

greg k-h
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