linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fat: avoid parent link count underflow in rmdir

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Message-ID: <87y0m1bzax.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:08:06 +0900
From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Zhiyu Zhang
 <zhiyuzhang999@...il.com>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        jack@...e.cz, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: avoid parent link count underflow in rmdir

Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 10:39:59AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:16:54 +0900 OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp> wrote:
>> 
>> > Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
>> > 
>> > > On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:45:18 +0800 Zhiyu Zhang <zhiyuzhang999@...il.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Hi OGAWA,
>> > >> 
>> > >> Sorry, I thought the further merge request would be done by the maintainers.
>> > >> 
>> > >> What should I do then?
>> > >
>> > > That's OK - I have now taken a copy of the patch mainly to keep track
>> > > of it.  It won't get lost.
>> > >
>> > > I thought Christian was handling fat patches now, but perhaps that's a
>> > > miscommunication?
>> > 
>> > Hm, I was thinking Andrew is still handling the fat specific patch, and
>> > Christian is only handling patches when vfs related.
>> > 
>> > Let me know if I need to do something.
>> 
>> OK, thanks, seems I misremembered.
>
> I prefer to take anything that touches fs/ - apart from reasonable
> exceptions - to go through vfs tree. So I would prefer to take this
> patch.

OK. I will add you to To: (with Acked-by) instead of Andrew next time?

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>