Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs fixes for 6.11-rc6

[David Sterba]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 12:50:22PM +0100, Filipe Manana wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 12:23 PM David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > a few more misc fixes. Please pull, thanks.
> >
> > - fix use-after-free when submitting bios for read, after an error and
> >   partially submitted bio the original one is freed while it can be still be
> >   accessed again
> >
> > - fix fstests case btrfs/301, with enabled quotas wait for delayed iputs when
> >   flushing delalloc
> >
> > - fix regression in periodic block group reclaim, an unitialized value can be
> >   returned if there are no block groups to reclaim
> 
> There's some confusion here.
> 
> First, it's not a regression because the uninitialized return value
> has been there since periodic block group reclaim was introduced.

I used the word regression because it's been added in the same
development cycle, i.e. the dynamic reclaim, but yeah maybe it's too
strong.

> Secondly, and more important, is that it doesn't cause any problem
> because the only caller of the function ignores its return value.
> 
> So this is effectively more of a cleanup than anything else, and could
> have waited for the next merge window.
> I see you also added a Fixes tag to the changelog, which will trigger
> stable backports.

For completeness of the periodic reclaim code I'd rather add it now,
before 6.11 is released. The Fixes tag is for reference where it was
added,

> Unless there are compiler versions or static analysis tools that
> complain with warnings, it will be just overhead to backport to stable
> releases.

No backports should be triggered by that because it hasn't been
released

$ git describe --contains e4ca3932ae90
v6.11-rc1~157^2~32