On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 09:40:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. Ah, ok. > 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. Ok, I'll add this to my list of things to apply sometime in the future when it shows up. thanks, greg k-h
