This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fs: unexport buffer_check_dirty_writeback to the 6.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fs-unexport-buffer_check_dirty_writeback.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 933f56748526eee156019108bf28a61107cb2661 Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Thu Jun 8 14:29:58 2023 +0200 fs: unexport buffer_check_dirty_writeback [ Upstream commit 4bb218a65a43782b1e75f5510744cb44795a1105 ] buffer_check_dirty_writeback is only used by the block device aops, remove the export. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Message-Id: <20230608122958.276954-1-hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index a7fc561758b1a..fe64356e89b8a 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ void buffer_check_dirty_writeback(struct folio *folio, bh = bh->b_this_page; } while (bh != head); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(buffer_check_dirty_writeback); /* * Block until a buffer comes unlocked. This doesn't stop it