linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [patch 04/26] writeback: dont propagate AOP_WRITEPAGE

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Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:05:19 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@....linux.org.uk>,
	Justin Forbes <jmforbes@...uxtx.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chris Wedgwood <reviews@...cw.f00f.org>,
	Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@...il.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Chuck Wolber <chuckw@...ntumlinux.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...nel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 04/26] writeback: dont propagate
	AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:04:57PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 
> > 2.6.22-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
> > know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > 
> > patch e423003028183df54f039dfda8b58c49e78c89d7 in mainline.
> > 
> > This is a writeback-internal marker but we're propagating it all the way back
> > to userspace!.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> 
> It's fine by me that this should go into 2.6.22-stable, but then please
> also put in this related patch from 2.6.23-stable: it's arguable whether
> either are strictly needed (they were originally provoked by unionfs, in
> Ubuntu but not mainline), but more helpful to include than exclude them.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hugh
> 
> 
> Subject: [patch 12/13] fix tmpfs BUG and AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE

Ok, thanks, I've added this patch to the queue too.

greg k-h
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