linux-kernel - Re: [ 062/117] ext4: fix ext4_writepages() in presence of truncate

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Message-ID: <20130930092327.GA28023@quack.suse.cz>
Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:23:27 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ 062/117] ext4: fix ext4_writepages() in presence of truncate

On Mon 30-09-13 00:07:11, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 17:18 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.11-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> > 
> > commit 5f1132b2ba8c873f25982cf45917e8455fb6c962 upstream.
> [...]
> 
> Is this needed for any older kernel versions?
  Commit 4e7ea81db53465ddd753678bc4cebf95369d0984 (and related ones)
introduced the problem. That was merged in 3.11-rc2 so that fix needs to be
only in 3.11 and newer stable kernels.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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