On 2010-07-07 22:38, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:05:52 +0200 > Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 2010-06-29 14:05, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >>> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Jens Axboe wrote: >>>> On 2010-06-29 13:08, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >>>>> These patches fix bugs that affect real-world users of splice(2) and >>>>> sendfile(2) interfaces. >>>>> >>>>> Not sure if some or all of them are appropriate for 2.6.35 and/or >>>>> -stable? >>>> >>>> I think that 1-2 should go into 2.6.35 directly, and 3 for .36 with >>>> a stable backport as well. Agree? >>> >>> Yes, sounds good. >> >> Good, that is what I queued up. I haven't pushed out the updated >> for-linus yet, since I asked Linus to pull it this morning. >> > > According to Tim's report on lkml > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/25/280), > cc56f7de7f00d188c7c4da1e9861581853b9e92f caused a regression. > cc56f7de7f00d188c7c4da1e9861581853b9e92f is present in 2.6.33 and in > 2.6.34 hence the fix should be backported into -stable. > > According to http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/588861, the patch "splice: > direct_splice_actor() should not use pos in sd" fixes the regression. > > However this: > > commit 4f9078afb4e083e033aafbbfabe729cb3832aa42 > Author: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Jun 29 13:09:18 2010 +0200 > > splice: direct_splice_actor() should not use pos in sd > > went into mainline without a cc:stable tag. I will send an email to stable@. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
