linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19.6] BFS: static inode bitmap and extra sanity checking

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Date:   Sun, 2 Dec 2018 15:19:36 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Tigran Aivazian <aivazian.tigran@...il.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        syzbot <syzbot+71c6b5d68e91149fc8a4@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, willy@...radead.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19.6] BFS: static inode bitmap and extra sanity checking

On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 06:57:10PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Please find a patch attached which contains the following changes:
>
>1. Simplifies inode bitmap allocation by making it static.
>2. Supersedes the changes to BFS that went into 4.19.6 with stronger checking.
>3. Other changes are trivial (like whitespace cleanup, warning messages etc).
>
>Fully tested under 4.19.6 kernel.

No part of this patch is upstream yet. We can't take anything that is
not in Linus's tree.

It should also not contain anything that isn't strictly a fix, that
means no whitespace cleanups and such. Please break it into multiple
patches when you send it upstream.

--
Thanks,
Sasha