Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:46:38 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] vfs: iversion truncate bug fix |
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On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:33:49 -0500 Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 15:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:26:30 -0500 > > Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 12:54 +0200, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: > > > > When a file is truncated with truncate()/ftruncate() and then closed, > > > > iversion is not updated. This patch uses ATTR_SIZE flag as an indication > > > > to increment iversion. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com> > > > > > > Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> > > > (Stable should be cc'ed on this patch.) > > > > why? > > Why backported?
Yes. If you want to submit the patch to the -stable maintainer then you should explain to him why the fix is important enough to warrant doing that. That involves explaining the user-visible effects of the bug.
> The IMA measurement list could be incomplete.
In more detail than this. Maybe he knows what the above sentence means, but I sure don't.
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