Re: Please consider 83f99de1b7c0 ("ext2: fix race between setxattr and write back") for 5.10.y, 5.15.y, and 6.1.y

[Theodore Tso]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 10:31:42PM -0500, Michael Bommarito wrote:
> Fresh stable check (2026-07-08):
> - 5.10.y: 738ac465e4e9
>   fix shape: absent; upstream diff: needs-adjustment
> - 5.15.y: c86c4726e7f0
>   fix shape: absent; upstream diff: needs-adjustment
> - 6.1.y: 090666d3cc90
>   fix shape: absent; upstream diff: needs-adjustment
> - 6.6.y and newer checked longterms already have the fixed shape


And this is why the patches have not been backported.  It requires
work, and an AI generated request doesn't change the reality that
*someone* has to do that work,

I invite you to figure out a way to figure out an AI mediated tool
that can attempt the backport, and then run the moral equivalent of
"gce-xfstests -c ext4.all -g auto" to verify that the backport doesn't
result in any regressions.  (Some previous attempts to backport to
older LTS kernels have resulted in the kernels crashing as a result.)

Otherwise, I recommend that most users consider switching to a newer
LTS kernel, or if they can't to pay $$$ to an enterprise Linux
distribution that pays engineers to do that hard work.

	     	       		       	    - Ted