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Message-ID: <CAFgt=MAGZTZAN5ShVsN-BrSrGSMzZ=-_zrM9KqVA-EK2Fi9FDA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:30:01 -0700
From:	Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@...gle.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, stable@...nel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
Subject: Re: what happened with dccaf33fa37 "ext4: flush any pending end_io
 requests before DIO" for 3.0?

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 05:42:56PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>> On Sat 17-03-12 13:31:30, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> > Ping?
>> >
>> > Maybe just a one-line reply isn't THAT difficult?
>> >
>> > We've a data corruption bug in current longterm stable kernel
>> > series which is known and has a fix and tagged for -stable for
>> > over half a year already...
>>   Greg, any idea why this patch was not included?
>
> I have no idea, sorry, that was way back in August of 2011, I can barely
> remember what patches were and were not applied last week...
>
> If it's still needed for 3.0, let me know and I'll be glad to queue it
> up.
Yes. it is still needed. The commit ID of the change is
dccaf33fa37a1bc5d651baeb3bfeb6becb86597b.
Please let me know if there is any problem on applying the change. Thanks!

Jiaying

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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