Hello Sasha, On 9/18/20 7:27 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 244adf6426ee31a83f397b700d964cff12a247d3 ] This fixes the direct I/O versus writeback race which can reveal stale data, and it improves the tail latency of commits on slow devices. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200125022254.1101588-1-tytso@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
I see that the subjected patch is being taken into many different stable trees. I remember there was a fixes patch on top of this[1]. Below thread[1] has more details. Just wanted to point this one out. Please ignore if already taken. [1]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg72219.html -ritesh
