linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] debugfs: initialize cancellations earlier

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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:10:17 +0100
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tetsuo Handa
	 <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debugfs: initialize cancellations earlier

On Thu, 2023-12-21 at 18:05 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 03:04:45PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> > 
> > Tetsuo Handa pointed out that in the (now reverted)
> > lockdep commit I initialized the data too late.
> 
> As the patch isn't in any tree, what is this against?

Hm? You mean the lockdep patch? It's not relevant, but I then
continued and wrote:

> > The same is true for the cancellation data, [...]

and then the patch goes and changes the cancellation data
initialization?

Or do you mean the patch mentioned in the fixes?

> > Fixes: 8c88a474357e ("debugfs: add API to allow debugfs operations cancellation")

That *is* in Linus's tree, as of -rc4.

Not sure I understand the question.

johannes