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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:17:10 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
"HUANG Weller (CM/ESW12-CN)" <Weller.Huang@...bosch.com>,
"George G. Davis" <george_davis@...tor.com>,
"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
"Behme Dirk (CM/ESO2)" <Dirk.Behme@...bosch.com>,
linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext4 support for LTS kernels (was: Re: [PATCH 3.14] ext4: fix
data exposure after a crash)
On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 09:20:04AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 01:05:37PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Fri 06-10-17 10:04:41, HUANG Weller (CM/ESW12-CN) wrote:
> > > I checked the latest 3.14 source code 3.14.79. I didn't found the below patch.
> >
> > Well, I'm not sure who runs the 3.14 stable tree (it's not listed at
> > kernel.org). It's up to him to pick up patches...
>
> The announcement of 3.14's End of Life as a stable kernel series was
> announced in September 2016. As far as I know, the fact that 3.14 is
> no longer listed on kernel.org means that no one is maintaining 3.14
> after Greg K-H declared it to be EOL'ed.
Yes, 3.14 is dead :)
> On a side note, I just recently finished an effort to update the ext4
> patches for 3.14, 4.1, 4.4, and 4.9. I've sent those backports and
> cherry pick requests to stable@...r.kernel.org. For details of my
> work, at:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git
>
> There are testing notes in the signed git tags:
>
> ext4-4.9.54-1
> - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tag/?h=ext4-4.9.54-1
> ext4-4.4.91-1
> - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tag/?h=ext4-4.4.91-1
> ext4-4.1.44-1
> - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tag/?h=ext4-4.1.44-1
> ext4-3.18.74-1
> - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tag/?h=ext4-3.18.74-1
>
> .... and on a "when Ted has time / interest basis", the ext4-3.18,
> ext4-4.1, ext4-4.4, and ext-4.9 branches in the above repo will be
> updated with a rebase against the latest LTS kernel and whatever
> patches are needed to minimize xfstests failures that haven't yet
> gotten accepted into the LTS kernel versions.
Thanks so much for this work. I think I've gotten most of these for
4.9, 4.4, and 3.18, I've emailed about the ones that didn't apply.
> Getting changes into android-common and/or various SOC's BSP kernels
> is left as an exercise to the reader.
android-common syncs with the lts stable releases, so they should get
picked up by the SoC BSP kernels that way. As long as your SoC company
is sane...
thanks,
greg k-h
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