linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] non-MM updates for 6.19-rc1

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgvMBRrcR=DzsRKcLdZpmg-kJz49D1CzafjrWj+BzAGiQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 11:21:39 +0900
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@...dex.ru>, 
	Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@...e.com>, Mark Fasheh <mark@...heh.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-mm@...ck.org, mm-commits@...r.kernel.org, 
	Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] non-MM updates for 6.19-rc1

On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 at 10:11, Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> On 2025/12/7 07:40, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > See commit c06c303832ec ("ocfs2: fix xattr array entry __counted_by
> > error") which simply makes the 'last' pointer point to the actual last
> > entry, rather than point to one _past_ the last entry.
>
> It looks fine to me.
> Sorry for the noise and thank you for pointing out my mistake.

Note that if my fix is correct, the mistake is most certainly not
yours and goes all the way back to 2009, and commit 0fe9b66c65f3
("ocfs2: Add preserve to reflink").

But I would really love to have somebody who knows that code go
through it, and see if my fix actually is the right thing to do.

               Linus