linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v4] ext4: fix direct I/O read error

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Message-ID: <20200805142946.GA2154236@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 5 Aug 2020 16:29:46 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        wanglong19@...tuan.com, heguanjun@...tuan.com,
        Jiang Ying <jiangying8582@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ext4: fix direct I/O read error

On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 10:51:07AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Note to stable tree maintainers (summary from the rather long changelog):
> This is a non-upstream patch. It will not go upstream because the problem
> there has been fixed by converting ext4 to use iomap infrastructure.
> However that change is out of scope for stable kernels and this is a
> minimal fix for the problem that has hit real-world applications so I think
> it would be worth it to include the fix in stable trees. Thanks.

Thanks for the note, I wouldn't have noticed it otherwise :)

greg k-h