linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] fixes for 3.12-final

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Date:	Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:12:49 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] fixes for 3.12-final

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 02:40:34PM -0500, Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 08:32:43AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:16:55AM -0500, Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > (Argh, sorry, with the right stable address cc'd this time I hope.)
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 03:10:04PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > > > FWIW, not taking ->i_lock there definitely looks like a good thing.  As for
> > > > 64bit ->i_ino itself...  Looks like the main problem is the shitload of
> > > > printks - the actual uses of ->i_ino are fine, but these suckers create
> > > > a lot of noise.  So for now I'm going with Bruce's variant; 64bit i_ino
> > > > doesn't look too bad (even on i386, actually), but it'll have to wait
> > > > until 3.14.  Too noisy and late in this cycle...
> > > 
> > > I believe we also want that in stable?
> > > 
> > > 950ee9566a5b6cc45d15f5fe044bab4f1e8b62cb "exportfs: fix 32-bit nfsd
> > > handling of 64-bit inode numbers"
> > 
> > It breaks the build in 3.12 and others so if it is needed, please
> > provide a backport that works properly to stable@...r.kernel.org.
> 
> Oops--there was a prerequisite patch that I forgot.  So we actually want
> 
> 	git cherry-pick b7a6ec52dd4eced4a9bcda9ca85b3c8af84d3c90
> 	git cherry-pick 950ee9566a5b6cc45d15f5fe044bab4f1e8b62cb

Thanks, I'll go take them now.

greg k-h
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