linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 4/4] ext4: Fix lost truncate due to race with writeback

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Message-ID: <20130828225504.GL27079@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:55:04 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ext4: Fix lost truncate due to race with writeback

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 03:01:48PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> Is this queued for 3.11 ? 1k blocksize fs's are still broken in rc7.

These patches fixed races that have been around for a while; it's not
a regression.  Given that they are fairly involved, I was nervous
sending them to Linus for 3.11, given the late date.

They are queued for the next merge window, and I'll mark them cc:
stable@...r.kernel.org.

						- Ted
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