linux-ext4 - Re: Backport commit 5e1021f2b6dff

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Message-ID: <1461623178.14569.16.camel@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:26:18 +0200
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@...d.natur.cuni.cz>
Subject: Re: Backport commit 5e1021f2b6dff

On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 15:30 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to ask for commit 5e1021f2b6dff (ext4: fix NULL pointer dereference
> in ext4_mark_inode_dirty()) to be pulled into stable kernels as far as
> easily possible (the problem is there at least since 3.0 kernel) since I've
> got report of kernel crashes due to this bug on accidental USB disk
> removal. Thanks!

Queued up for 3.2 and 3.16, thanks.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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