From: Greg KH <[email protected]>
To: Lee Jones <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 1/1] io_uring: fix double free in the deferred/cancelled path
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:46:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 10:03:01AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2021, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 09:37:59AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > On Wed, 27 Oct 2021, Greg KH wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 09:01:28AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > > > 792bb6eb86233 ("io_uring: don't take uring_lock during iowq cancel")
> > > > > inadvertently fixed this issue in v5.12. This patch cherry-picks the
> > > > > hunk of commit which does so.
> > > >
> > > > Why can't we take all of that commit? Why only part of it?
> > >
> > > I don't know.
> > >
> > > Why didn't the Stable team take it further than v5.11.y?
> >
> > Look in the archives? Did it not apply cleanly?
> >
> > /me goes off and looks...
> >
> > Looks like I asked for a backport, but no one did it, I only received a
> > 5.11 version:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/1839646480a26a2461eccc38a75e98998d2d6e11.1615375332.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
> >
> > so a 5.10 version would be nice, as I said it failed as-is:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
>
> Precisely. This is the answer to your question:
>
> > > > Why can't we take all of that commit? Why only part of it?
>
> Same reason the Stable team didn't back-port it - it doesn't apply.
>
> The second hunk is only relevant to v5.11+.
Great, then use the "normal" stable style, but down in the s-o-b area
say "dropped second chunk as it is not relevant to 5.10.y".
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-27 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-27 8:01 [PATCH 5.10 1/1] io_uring: fix double free in the deferred/cancelled path Lee Jones
2021-10-27 8:18 ` Greg KH
2021-10-27 8:37 ` Lee Jones
2021-10-27 8:53 ` Greg KH
2021-10-27 9:03 ` Lee Jones
2021-10-27 12:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-10-27 14:00 ` Lee Jones
2021-10-27 14:38 ` Greg KH
2021-10-27 14:42 ` Lee Jones
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