[F][PATCH 0/1] Fix a potential data corruption issue for thin provisioned devices (LP: 1862749)

Paolo Pisati paolo.pisati at canonical.com
Wed Mar 18 10:57:39 UTC 2020


On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:54:56AM +0100, Frank Heimes wrote:
>    Hi Paolo,
>    I discussed that with Stefan Haberland, who wrote this patch.
>    Looks like git (for whatever reason) behaved slightly different in
>    removing lines.
>    We both agree that (as of today) the generated code is the same,
>    however patches on top might become tricky...
>    Since 5.4 is the LTS kernel (not only for us, but also at
>    [1]kernel.org) I suggest that we pick the stable release backport
>    version to 5.4 (and not my cherry pick from 5.6) - just having future
>    maintainability in mind. Do you agree?

Yes, i prefer to track upstream closely, and since i just applied v5.4.26, this
patch was implicitly applied.
-- 
bye,
p.



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