Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 27/37] ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 03:04:54PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > I'm confused; this was explicitly cc'ed to stable@xxxxxxxxxx, so why
> > is your AUTOSEL picking this up?  I would have thought this would get
> > picked up via the normal stable kernel processes.
> 
> My mistake, appologies.

No worries; the intent was that it be backported to stable, and I
don't really care with path it takes.

I just wanted to make sure there wouldn't be confusion if you
backported it to stable, and then Greg tried and then got a merge
conflict.  (Or worse, if the patch was one of the ones where it can be
successfully applied *twice* w/o a patch conflict; I'm not sure if git
cherry-pick is smarter than patch in this regard, but I don't think it
is?)

   	   	      	      	      	    	  - Ted