Re: STABLE REQ: [PATCH v5 06/10] tracing: Fix subbuf resize races with trace_pipe_raw readers

From: Greg KH

Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 07:50:00 EST


On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 10:57:44AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Sep 2026, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 09:27:17AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > On Tue, 01 Sep 2026, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 1 Sep 2026 13:34:44 +0100
> > > > Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Could we have this applied to Stable please:
> > > > >
> > > > > 8a5f63637890 ("ring-buffer: Fix subbuf resize race with ring buffer readers")
> > > >
> > > > It's marked for stable so it should automatically be backported (if it
> > >
> > > Where was it marked for Stable?
> >
> > It has:
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > in the patch itself. It is in my queue to get to, along with over 1000+
> > other patches that people decided to tag for stable and yet wait for the
> > -rc1 merge window to get to Linus.
>
> Am I losing the plot? The patch that I replied to [0] did not Cc:
> Stable. If it had, I wouldn't have made the request.
>
> From: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx, mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx,
> linux-trace-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx, kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx,
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH v5 06/10] tracing: Fix subbuf resize races with trace_pipe_raw readers
>
> [...]
>
> Fixes: bce761d75745 ("ring-buffer: Read and write to ring buffers with custom sub buffer size")
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx>


I'm lost, I was referring to the above git id that was asked about,
sorry.

> > It will get there eventually...
>
> This wasn't an urgent request or a request to expedite. Take your time.

Back to the never-ending-queue...

greg k-h