linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.6 64/68] btrfs: hold a ref on the root in btrfs_recover

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Date:   Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:09:06 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.6 64/68] btrfs: hold a ref on the root in
 btrfs_recover_relocation

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:46:29PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 932fd26df8125a5b14438563c4d3e33f59ba80f7 ]
> 
> We look up the fs root in various places in here when recovering from a
> crashed relcoation.  Make sure we hold a ref on the root whenever we
> look them up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>

Please drop this patch from all stable versions. It's part of a
larger series that is preparatory switching from SRCU to refcounts, so
the patch on itself does not fix anything.