linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.10 021/139] MIPS: Send SIGILL for BPOSGE32 in `__compute_return_epc_for

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Message-ID: <20171106050736.GA15445@1wt.eu>
Date:   Mon, 6 Nov 2017 06:07:36 +0100
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:     Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...il.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...tec.com>,
        James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>,
        Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.10 021/139] MIPS: Send SIGILL for BPOSGE32 in
 `__compute_return_epc_for_insn'

Hi Huacai,

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 12:41:48PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> Hi, Willy,
> 
> Does these two patches really needed for 3.10? They are marked for 4.4 and 4.6.
> 
> ext4: avoid deadlock when expanding inode size
> 
> ext4: in ext4_seek_{hole,data}, return -ENXIO for negative offsets

Ted provided stable backports of these patches for older kernels back
to 3.18, thus I understood that they were valid before 4.4/4.6.

Regards,
Willy