On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 04:06:24PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello Greg!
>
> I have noticed that for 5.10 and older kernels the main fix patch -
> 65f8b80053a ("ext4: fix race when reusing xattr blocks") failed to apply.
>
> Thus there's no point to carry these preparatory patches:
> 58318914186c ("mbcache: don't reclaim used entries")
> dc96bba65f53 ("mbcache: add functions to delete entry if unused")
> 6bc0d63dad7f ("ext4: remove EA inode entry from mbcache on inode eviction")
>
> If someone decides to backport fixes to older kernels, he can easily push
> these preparatory patches again...
Thanks for the info, I'll go drop these from 5.10 and older kernels.
greg k-h
