Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] liveupdate: fix incoming error handling and teardown paths

From: Andrew Morton

Date: Fri Mar 27 2026 - 20:32:51 EST


On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:25:33 +0800 Leo Timmins <leotimmins1974@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This series fixes two issues in LUO's incoming-side error handling and
> teardown paths.
>
> The first patch makes session deserialization fail when file
> deserialization fails, instead of silently continuing with a partially
> restored session.
>
> The second patch (formerly patch 3 on the v1) initializes incoming FLB
> state before the finish pathdecrements its refcount, so the last-user
> cleanup path does not run from an uninitialized count. (and now
> utilises pr_warn instead of WARN_ON)

I'm not clear how we want to schedule these two patches. Into next
merge widow? Into 7.0-rcX? Into 7.0-rcX and cc:stable?

Thanks.