On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 06:16:00PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> This backport series contains mostly fixes from v5.14 release along
> with one fix deferred from the first joint 5.10/5.15 series [1].
>
> The upstream commit f8d92a66e810 ("xfs: prevent UAF in
> xfs_log_item_in_current_chkpt") was already applied to 5.15.y, but its
> 5.10.y backport was more involved (required two non trivial dependency
> patches), so it needed more time for review and testing.
>
> Per Darrick's recommendation, on top of the usual regression tests,
> I also ran the "recoveryloop" tests group for an extended period of
> time to test for rare regressions.
>
> Some recoveryloop tests were failing at rates less frequent than 1/100,
> but no change in failure rate was observed between baseline (v5.10.131)
> and the backport branch.
>
> There was one exceptional test, xfs/455, that was reporting data
> corruptions after crash at very low rate - less frequent than 1/1000
> on both baseline and backport branch.
>
> It is hard to draw solid conclusions with such rare failures, but the
> test was run >10,000 times on baseline and >20,000 times on backport
> branch, so as far as our test coverage can attest, these backports are
> not introducing any obvious xfs regressions to 5.10.y.
Now queued up, thanks!
greg k-h
