Re: [3.4.x] missing patches for 3.4.x

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On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 05:42:49PM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
> On 03/05/2014 07:54 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 06:45:46PM +0800, Rui Xiang wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> These are a bunch of commits from the list of upstream commits
> >> that have been backported to 3.2 but missing from 3.4.
> >>
> >> For the 14 commits,
> >>  - 12 commits were marked for stable but can't be applied cleanly to
> >>    3.4.x.
> >>  - 1 commit is not a bug fix, but a prerequisite for a commit which 
> >>    had been backported to 3.4.x without this commit. So it needn't to be
> >>    applied.
> >>  - 1 commit has no stable tag. I've found out why it was backported
> >>    to 3.2.x, and I'm sure it should be applied to 3.4.x.
> >>
> >> Please cherry-pick these commits from 3.2.x:
> >>
> >> ccebcc74c81d  nilfs2: fix issue with race condition of competition between segments for dirty blocks
> >> b5f9e3533584  fuse: readdir: check for slash in names
> >> 941781515755  fuse: hotfix truncate_pagecache() issue
> >> be47dfad8e39  libceph: unregister request in __map_request failed and nofail == false
> >> eb4a22ba43d9  cifs: don't instantiate new dentries in readdir for inodes that need to be revalidated immediately
> >> 21544884d7d5  ncpfs: fix rmdir returns Device or resource busy
> >> 164ed4383ca6  ext4/jbd2: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by wraparound
> >> 2ff3ae3932b9  UBIFS: fix double free of ubifs_orphan objects
> >> 3e411534ea3b  ext4: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
> >> f6f82cba2ccb  cifs: adjust sequence number downward after signing NT_CANCEL request
> >>
> >> There are 3 other commits that need some adjustments. I'll send
> >> out the backports.
> > 
> > Thanks so much for this, I've now included these commits, and the 3
> > other.
> >
> 
> Just out of curiosity, why are those commits missing from the 3.4.x
> stable tree but not from the 3.2.x one ?

Because they required manual backporting to the 3.4.x kernel, and Ben
did that work.  With my workload, I can't take the time to backport
every stable patch to the 3.4.x tree, I rely on the subsystem
maintainers and others, to do this work.

greg k-h
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