linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.6 051/129] btrfs: handle NULL roots in btrfs_put/btrfs_grab_fs

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Message-ID: <20200422005006.GU1809@sasha-vm>
Date:   Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:50:06 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     dsterba@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.6 051/129] btrfs: handle NULL roots in
 btrfs_put/btrfs_grab_fs_root

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 03:22:24PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 07:33:26AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 4cdfd93002cb84471ed85b4999cd38077a317873 ]
>>
>> We want to use this for dropping all roots, and in some error cases we
>> may not have a root, so handle this to make the cleanup code easier.
>> Make btrfs_grab_fs_root the same so we can use it in cases where the
>> root may not exist (like the quota root).
>
>This is another patch from the preparatory series, not needed for
>stable. Please drop it, thanks.

Dropped, thanks!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha