On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 02:57:22PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 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")
This commit is already in the following releases:
3.16.85 4.4.221 4.4.263 4.9.221 4.9.263 4.14.178 4.14.227 4.19.73 4.19.182 5.2 5.7.18 5.8.4
> 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)?
The second commit does not apply cleanly, so I would need working
backported ones to get this right. I have queued up the first one now
already.
thanks,
greg k-h
