On Thu 05-01-23 11:23:20, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 6:26 AM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The pull request is somewhat large but given these are all fixes (except > > for ext2 conversion) and we are only at rc3, I hope it is fine. > > That > > > Jan Kara (30): > > udf: New directory iteration code > > really is entirely new code, I want to get these kinds of things > during the merge window. > > This is not some kind of urgent new regression that needs fixing so > urgently that we take new development outside the merge window. > > This needs to go in for 6.3, and _if_ the syzbot reports are > considered super-urgent and important enough to be back-ported, then > it would need to be marked for stable and backported, simply because > then old kernels would need it too. > > But clearly none of this was considered quite that important. So 6.3 it is. > > If parts of this is more urgent, send just that part. Not this whole > "rewrite directory handling from scratch" stuff. Sure, fair enough. I also felt it was kind of borderline whether I should wait for the merge window or push. I'll go through the pile and see if there are bits which are important enough and can be easily carved out. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
