linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs/9p: Fix TCREATE's fid in protocol

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Date:   Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:35:41 +0200
From:   Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
To:     Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@...gle.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
        Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/9p: Fix TCREATE's fid in protocol

Victor Hsieh wrote on Tue, Jul 14, 2020:
> Please disregard this patch.  I misunderstood the protocol and have
> found the actual problem in the hypervisor's 9P implementation.  Sorry
> about the noise.

Ok, thanks for the notice.

Greg KH wrote on Wed, Jul 15, 2020:
> As Eric says, this is fine to cc: stable with this kind of thing.  It's
> good to get a "heads up" on patches that are coming, and Sasha runs some
> tests on them as well to make sure that they really are going to apply
> to what trees you think they should apply to.

Hmm, I'm really not sure how useful that is for first version of a patch
that actually got refused ;)
But if you both say it doesn't hurt I won't advise against it anymore,
thanks for correcting me.

-- 
Dominique