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

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Message-ID: <aH-enGSS7zWq0jFf@casper.infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:22:20 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
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 Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 11:04:30PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> 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.

I don't understand this attitude at all.  Are you in QA and being paid
by "number of bugs closed per week"?