linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] hfs: remove BUG() from hfs_release_folio()/hfs_test_inode()/hfs_write

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Message-ID: <8333cf5e-a9cc-4b56-8b06-9b55b95e97db@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:04:30 +0900
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Viacheslav Dubeyko <Slava.Dubeyko@....com>,
        "glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de" <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
        "frank.li@...o.com" <frank.li@...o.com>,
        "slava@...eyko.com" <slava@...eyko.com>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] hfs: remove BUG() from
 hfs_release_folio()/hfs_test_inode()/hfs_write_inode()

On 2025/07/22 22:30, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 07:42:35PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>> I can update patch description if you have one, but I don't plan to try something like below.
> 
> Why not?  Papering over the underlying problem is what I rejected in v1,
> and here we are months later with you trying a v4.

Because I don't know how HFS/HFS+ filesystems work.
I just want to close these nearly 1000 days old bugs.

You can write your patches.