On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 09:46:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 9:36 AM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Oh, I guess I have to actually download the stable tree. Normally I
> > only keep the main tree git around..
>
> Ok, so it does the accounting a bit differently - after allocating
> them rather than before - but it actually ends up being a simpler
> patch because of that.
>
> I think it ends up like the attached.
>
> UNTESTED.
>
> I'm not 100% convinced we need to backport this that far anyway, but
> whatever. Nobody sane runs something like a build server on 4.4.
{sigh}
I wish.
> Nobody sane should run 4.4 at all, of course.
Oh I really wish. 4.4 is sticking around in some situations for a very
long time for odd reasons, and build servers look to be one of them (a
very large cloud company seems enamored with that kernel for some
reason...)
> fs/pipe.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
This looks good to me, I'll queue it up in a bit as it's more
descriptive than Alex's backport.
Thanks for this!
greg k-h
