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

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Message-ID: <20260114-bestzeit-sparen-9f4247ba30f7@brauner>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:15:13 +0100
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 07:08:06PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> 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?

Yes please. Thank you!