Leah, thanks for doing the backport to 5.4! And Greg, thanks for queuing them up.
I note that if we first cherry pick into 4.19.y a fix from 5.2 that
probably should have been cc'ed to stable to begin with:
0a944e8a6c66 ("ext4: don't perform block validity checks on the journal inode")
Leah's three backports to 5.4 will then apply to 4.19 LTS; I've run
regression tests with the cherry-pick of 0a944e8a6c66 and Leah's three
backports applied to 4.19.230, and the resulting kernel looks fine and
prevents a kernel crash when running ext4/054.
Greg, would you prefer that I send the patches for 4.19.y, or do you
have what you need to do the cherry pick (all of the cherry picks are
clean, and didn't require any manual resolution)?
Thanks!
- Ted
