linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.2 009/152] ext4: check for extents that wrap around

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:15:19 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        Phil Turnbull <phil.turnbull@...cle.com>,
        Eryu Guan <guaneryu@...il.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2 009/152] ext4: check for extents that wrap around

On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 16:29 +0100, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On 11/14/2016 01:14 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 3.2.84-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> Just a general comment on stable review workflow, really:
> 
> It might be more useful to send the diff-of-diffs with the upstream
> commit so I can easily see if you had any conflicts when cherry-picking
> this and how they were resolved.

When there are conflicts, I explain how they were resolved before my
Signed-off-by: line.  In this case there were none.

I'm not going to change to diff-of-diffs unless there is consensus for
this among stable maintainers and reviewers.

[...]
> If you could push this commit to git before sending the review, you
> could also include a command that I can use to quickly do the
> diff-of-diffs myself without having to download and apply the patch (or
> look for it), e.g. something like (using the 3.12 stable commit vs
> upstream):
[...]

You can find all the patches in a 3.2-rc or 3.16-rc review at
<https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/bwh/linux-stable-queue.git/>.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault.

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