Re: [PATCH v4] ext4: fix direct I/O read error

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 10:51:07AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Note to stable tree maintainers (summary from the rather long changelog):
> This is a non-upstream patch. It will not go upstream because the problem
> there has been fixed by converting ext4 to use iomap infrastructure.
> However that change is out of scope for stable kernels and this is a
> minimal fix for the problem that has hit real-world applications so I think
> it would be worth it to include the fix in stable trees. Thanks.

Thanks for the note, I wouldn't have noticed it otherwise :)

greg k-h