On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 10:05:24AM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Note that this was a real fix, but the fix only matters if commit
> aaec5a95d596 ("pipe_read: don't wake up the writer if the pipe is
> still full") is in the tree.
>
> Now, the bug was pre-existing, and *maybe* it could be hit without
> that commit aaec5a95d596, but nobody has ever reported it, so it's
> very very unlikely.
>
> Also, this fix then had some fall-out, and while I think you've queued
> all the fallout fixes too, I think it might be a good idea to wait for
> more reports from the development tree before considering these for
> stable.
>
> Put another way: this fix caused some pain. It might not be worth
> back-porting to stable at all, and if it is, it might be worth waiting
> to see that there's no other fallout.
Thanks for letting us know, I've dropped these and the other "fixups"
for the pipe patch from all stable queues now.
greg k-h
