Re: [stable] [Stable-review] [116/165] ext4: dont return to userspaceafter freezing the fs with a mutex held

From: Stefan Bader
Date: Mon Aug 09 2010 - 05:00:58 EST


On 08/07/2010 03:38 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> On Mon, 02 Aug 2010, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:02:45PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>>> On 08/02/2010 07:04 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
>>>>> We have reports about this patch breaking lvm snapshhots. Eric, there is a patch
>>>>> mentioned which is supposed to fix things but its not upstream, yet.
>>>>> Do you know what happened to that?
>>>> right, patch below is needed to fix things.
>>>>
>>>> Ted just acked it on the list recently; Greg, I'd either drop 116/165
>>>> for now, or include the patch below which should be upstream soon...
>>> I can't take anything that isn't upstream yet.
>>>
>>> And I just released with this patch in the kernel, should I do a revert
>>> and do a new release?
>>
>> Any answers on this?
>>
>
> Yes, I'd revert it for now, I'm afraid, if the other patch isn't upstream
> yet.
>
> Sorry about that,
>
> -Eric

Upstream as of now (same SHA1 as in linux-next):