On Thu 12-12-24 10:12:54, Philippe Troin wrote: > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 15:55 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let > > me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > > > > commit a220d6b95b1ae12c7626283d7609f0a1438e6437 upstream. > > > > This reverts commit 7c877586da3178974a8a94577b6045a48377ff25. > > Isn't that moot now with 0938b1614648d5fbd832449a5a8a1b51d985323d that > in Linus's tree? It's not in 6.12 (yet?). > It may be worth backporting 0938b1614 to the stable tree, but it's > beyond my pay grade. Hum, I don't think it is moot. Due to the change this commit reverts, we could have been calling page_cache_ra_unbounded() with huge nr_to_read value. I don't see how upstream commit 0938b1614648d5fb helps dealing with that... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
