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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fs/9p: Fix TCREATE's fid in protocol
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 01:54:01PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 02:12:49PM +0200, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> >
> > > Fixes: 5643135a2846 ("fs/9p: This patch implements TLCREATE for 9p2000.L protocol.")
> > > Signed-off-by: Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@google.com>
> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> >
> > (afaiu it is normally frowned upon for developers to add this cc (I can
> > understand stable@ not wanting spam discussing issues left and right
> > before maintainers agreed on them!) ; I can add it to the commit itself
> > if requested but they normally pick most such fixes pretty nicely for
> > backport anyway; I see most 9p patches backported as long as the patch
> > applies cleanly which is pretty much all the time.
> > Please let me know if I understood that incorrectly)

As Eric says, this is fine to cc: stable with this kind of thing. It's
good to get a "heads up" on patches that are coming, and Sasha runs some
tests on them as well to make sure that they really are going to apply
to what trees you think they should apply to.

thanks,

greg k-h

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