Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:40:53 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.0 59/66] fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write can run simultaneously without deadlock |
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:34 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > I think there is a follow-on patch for this one as well, that adds the > proper "stream open" logic to all of the individual locations.
That bulk one hasn't been applied yet, and wouldn't be appropriate for stable anyway. It's 5.2 material.
But...
> But even with that, I don't think this is stable material, it should > just be for 5.1 and newer kernels.
We likely *will* have a fuse-only patch that uses stream_open() and _will_ be marked for stable, but that hasn't actually happened yet either. But if/when that happens, then this infrastructure patch will indeed be needed in stable.
Linus
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