Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:19:26 -0400 | From | Sasha Levin <> | 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 09:40:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >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.
Hm, I might be confusing something here but I see a bunch of patches that convert existing callers mentioned in this patch to use stream_open() which was introduced here.
Are these the same patches you're referring to? If so, why are they not appropriate for stable?
-- Thanks, Sasha
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