On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:34 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think there is a follow-on patch for this one as well, that adds the
> proper "stream open" logic to all of the individual locations.
That bulk one hasn't been applied yet, and wouldn't be appropriate for
stable anyway. It's 5.2 material.
But...
> But even with that, I don't think this is stable material, it should
> just be for 5.1 and newer kernels.
We likely *will* have a fuse-only patch that uses stream_open() and
_will_ be marked for stable, but that hasn't actually happened yet
either. But if/when that happens, then this infrastructure patch will
indeed be needed in stable.
Linus
