Re: FAILED: Patch "io_uring/filetable: clamp alloc_hint to the configured alloc range" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 01:45:51PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>On 3/2/26 1:41 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 01:38:37PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 3/1/26 6:15 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> On 2/28/26 6:47 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>>> The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree.
>>>>> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
>>>>> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
>>>>> id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
>>>>
>>>> And this one also picks cleanly into 6.1-stable. Not sure what is
>>>> going on at your end?
>>>
>>> Are these and the other "FAILED" false positives getting applied or
>>> not? I didn't hear anything back on any of them.
>>
>> Appologies for all of this. There's an explanation of what happened here:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/aaWWE5uQqz_eG69i@laps/
>>
>> These should be part of the -rc2 I did earlier today.
>
>Gotcha, yeah it's not easy to know when you don't hear back, either
>as a reply or as a new "added to stable" email. For those of us that
>do take stable seriously, I 100% need to know if something is landing
>or not.

You're right (and thanks for all the backports!). I had a plan to review all of
these again after the release, but I should have sent something out first.

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Thanks,
Sasha