Re: [PATCH 4.16 231/272] fanotify: Avoid lost events due to ENOMEM for unlimited queues

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 02:52:57PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 28-05-18 15:39:04, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 4.16-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > >
> > 
> > I do not have objections for applying this patch to stable, but AFAIK
> > it is a correctness patch that doesn't fix any bug and it was mainly added
> > as a prerequisite to memcg accounting of event allocations, which is not
> > yet merged and not destined for stable.
> > 
> > Jan? do you agree with my statements above?
> 
> Yes, you are correct. The problem this patch tries to fix is theoretical in
> nature at this point. However my feeling is stable tree has got rather
> benevolent in accepting patches in last months and Greg wishes it stays that
> way so I'm objecting only to patches I know introduce regressions at this
> point.

I am getting "more benevolent", but the patch should be there for at
least some good reason.  This one was picked by the "semi-automatic"
checker, and at first glance seems like it is a real bugfix.  But, as
you mention, it was only needed in preparation for a future patch, then
this patch is not needed in the stable trees, and I'll go drop it now.

thanks,

greg k-h