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

[Joseph Salisbury]

On 05/24/2018 07:59 AM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> 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.
It is targeting cosmic(And linux-gce).  Bionic is getting the commit via
bug 1765564, but that bug does not have cosmic as a bug task(And cosmic
was not requested in the SRU for that bug).  Cosmic will get this commit
when it is rebased, but I was not sure when that would happen.  I
figured I'd send a request to have the commit in cosmic in the mean time.