[Cosmic][PATCH 0/1] fsnotify: Fix fsnotify_mark_connector race

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 07:32:53AM -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> On 05/23/2018 02:27 PM, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> > BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1771075
> >
> > == Cosmic Justification ==
> > A regression was introduced by commit 08991e83b728.  This regression
> > causes problems on hosts that make heavy use of inotify and causes panics / lockups 
> > in the kernel in inotify-related code.
> >
> > This regression is fixed buy commit d90a10e2444b as of v4.17-rc3.  Commit d90a10e2444b
> > was cc'd to stable and is already in Artful and Bionic but not Cosmic.
> > The commit was added to A and B by bug 1765564.
> >
> > == Fix ==
> > d90a10e2444b ("fsnotify: Fix fsnotify_mark_connector race")
> >
> > == Regression Potential ==
> > Low.  Fixes a current regression. The patch was cc'd to stable, so it has had
> > additional upstream review.  This commit is already applied to Artful
> > and Bionic.
> >
> > == Test Case ==
> > A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
> > The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
> >
> > Robert Kolchmeyer (1):
> >   fsnotify: Fix fsnotify_mark_connector race
> >
> >  include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 4 +---
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> This patch is also being requested in linux-gcp.  Should I send a v2, so
> cosmic and linux-gcp are both listed in the subject?
> 

Is this really targeting cosmic? Or bionic? Though cosmic is still carrying the
bionic kernel, it will soon have a 4.17 based kernel, which already has that
commit.

Cascardo.