On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 08:51:06PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
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Von: "John Ogness" john.ogness@linutronix.de An: "richard" richard@nod.at CC: "linux-mtd" linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, "linux-kernel" linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. April 2020 16:56:31 Betreff: Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Fix ubifs_tnc_lookup() usage in do_kill_orphans()
Hi Richard,
Could you CC this patch to stable? It fixes a serious problem that I am seeing on real devices (i.e. Linux not being able to mount its root filesystem after a power cut). Thanks.
Just checked again, better ask stable maintainers. :-)
Stable maintainers, can you please make sure this patch will make it into stable? The upstream commit is: 4ab25ac8b2b5 ("ubifs: Fix ubifs_tnc_lookup() usage in do_kill_orphans()")
I always thought havings a Fixes-Tag is enough to make sure it will get picked up. Isn't this the case?
No it is not, please read: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html for how to do this properly.
Our scripts are doing better to dig out stuff where maintainers mess up and forget to put the cc: stable tag, but you can never rely on it. Please stick with the above rules that have been there for 15+ years :)
thanks,
greg k-h