linux-kernel - Re: Applying pipe fix this merge window?

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Date:   Sat, 8 Feb 2020 14:04:25 -0800
From:   Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Applying pipe fix this merge window?

On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 01:53:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 10:45 AM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Sure, I'll apply it and see if anybody hollers.
> 
> Btw, can you verify that commit 0ddad21d3e99 ("pipe: use exclusive
> waits when reading or writing") matches what you've been testing.

Byte-for-byte identical.

> I did put a "tested-by" for you in it, but I had a few different
> versions of that patch because of other changes in fs/pipe.c and
> because I did it while doing the other changes, so maybe I should have
> double-checked with you first.

The commit message for 0ddad21d3e99 looks completely reasonable to me.

Thank you!

- Josh Triplett