Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: Fix crash during pci_dev hot-unplug on pseries KVM guest

[Amit Machhiwal]

Hi Bjorn,

On 2024/07/25 03:55 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 11:15:39PM +0530, Amit Machhiwal wrote:
> > ...
> > The crash in question is a critical issue that we would want to have
> > a fix for soon. And while this is still being figured out, is it
> > okay to go with the fix I proposed in the V1 of this patch?
> 
> v6.10 has been released already, and it will be a couple months before
> the v6.11 release.
> 
> It looks like the regression is 407d1a51921e, which appeared in v6.6,
> almost a year ago, so it's fairly old.
> 
> What target are you thinking about for the V1 patch?  I guess if we
> add it as a v6.11 post-merge window fix, it might get backported to
> stable kernels before v6.11?  

Yes, I think we can go ahead with taking V1 patch for v6.11 post-merge window to
fix the current bug and ask Ubuntu to pick it while Lizhi's proposed patch goes
under test and review.

Thanks,
Amit