Re: [PATCH] ext4: get rid of ppath in get_ext_path()

From: Greg KH

Date: Fri Jul 03 2026 - 04:20:39 EST


On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 03:57:09PM +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
> On 2026/7/2 13:47, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 09:48:33AM +0800, Jiayuan Chen wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> Any update here ?
> > What is "here"? There is no context in this email :(
> >
> >> We rebased the 6.6 stable one week ago and also found the same regression.
> > What regression? Again, no context :(
> >
> > confused,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> For some reason, LTS only merged a subset of my patchset, causing
> some commits to lack their prerequisite patches. This leads to error
> numbers being interpreted as valid pointers.
>
> For details, see the fix patchset that Erkun submitted to 6.6.y
> (it fell through the cracks for some reason):
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260421113416.4040274-1-yangerkun@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Either applying this fix patchset or reverting the incorrectly merged
> commit should resolve the issue.

How about submitting a revert so that we can start fresh and work from
there?

thanks,

greg k-h