Re: io_uring stable addition

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On Sat, Dec 07, 2019 at 08:19:18AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 12/7/19 5:01 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 08:53:43AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> We have an issue with drains not working due to missing copy of some
> >> state, it's affecting 5.2/5.3/5.4. I'm attaching the patch for 5.4,
> >> however the patch should apply to 5.2 and 5.3 as well by just removing
> >> the last hunk. The last hunk is touching the linked code, which was
> >> introduced with 5.4.
> > 
> > Does this match up with a patch in Linus's tree anywhere?  Why is this a
> > stable-only thing?
> 
> Because it was fixed as part of a cleanup series in mainline, before
> anyone realized we had this issue. That removed the separate states
> of ->index vs ->submit.sqe. That series is not something I was
> comfortable putting into stable, hence the much simpler addition.
> Here's the patch in the series that fixes the same issue:
> 
> commit cf6fd4bd559ee61a4454b161863c8de6f30f8dca
> Author: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Nov 25 23:14:39 2019 +0300
> 
>     io_uring: inline struct sqe_submit

Thanks for the info, now queued up!

greg k-h



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