linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH STABLE 5.10 5.11] swap: fix swapfile page to sector mapping

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Message-ID: <YEELCJkGx78SP34d@technoir>
Date:   Thu, 4 Mar 2021 17:30:00 +0100
From:   Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@...e.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH STABLE 5.10 5.11] swap: fix swapfile page to sector
 mapping

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 04:16:26PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 04:08:24PM +0100, Anthony Iliopoulos wrote:
> > commit caf6912f3f4af7232340d500a4a2008f81b93f14 upstream.
> 
> No, this does not look like that commit.
> 
> Why can I not just take caf6912f3f4a ("swap: fix swapfile read/write
> offset") directly for 5.10 and 5.11?  WHat has changed to prevent that?

You're right of course, the upstream fix applies even on v5.4 so you
could just take it directly for those branches if this is preferable.

Regards,
Anthony