linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 5.15 00/10] ext4 fast-commit fixes for 5.15-stable

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Message-ID: <Y8eOihLNlJuWCsp4@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jan 2023 07:15:38 +0100
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15 00/10] ext4 fast-commit fixes for 5.15-stable

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:29:36PM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 01:01:11PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 11:13:49PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > > This series backports 6 commits with 'Cc stable' that had failed to be
> > > applied, and 4 related commits that made the backports much easier.
> > > Please apply this series to 5.15-stable.
> > > 
> > > I verified that this series does not cause any regressions with
> > > 'gce-xfstests -c ext4/fast_commit -g auto'.  There is one test failure
> > > both before and after (ext4/050).
> > 
> > All now queued up, thanks.
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> 
> It's too late to fix now, but the commits in 5.15-stable all use
> "Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>" as the author instead of the From line in
> the patch itself.  For example, patch 1 became:
> 
> 	commit b0ed9a032e52a175683d18e2e2e8eec0f9ba1ff9
> 	Author: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
> 	Date:   Wed Jan 4 23:13:50 2023 -0800
> 
> 	    ext4: remove unused enum EXT4_FC_COMMIT_FAILED
> 
> 	    From: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> 	    commit c864ccd182d6ff2730a0f5b636c6b7c48f6f4f7f upstream.
> 
> For reference, the upstream commit is:
> 
> 	commit c864ccd182d6ff2730a0f5b636c6b7c48f6f4f7f
> 	Author: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>
> 	Date:   Sat Mar 12 11:09:46 2022 +0530
> 
> 	    ext4: remove unused enum EXT4_FC_COMMIT_FAILED
> 
> Do you know how this happened, and how it can be prevented in the future?  I
> think I sent everything out correctly, so I think this is something on your end.

Yes, this is on my end, sorry, my scripts mess this up when dealing with
mbox files and I missed having to edit the header "by hand" like I
normally do when it happens.

My fault,

greg k-h