Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 May 2021 07:58:05 -0400 (EDT) | From | Mikulas Patocka <> | Subject | Re: Patch regression - Re: [PATCH 5.10 070/104] dm snapshot: fix a crash when an origin has no snapshots |
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On Tue, 25 May 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 07:36:57AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > Hi Greg > > > > I'd like to ask you to drop this patch from all stable branches. > > > > It causes regression with snapshot merging and the regression is much > > worse than the bug that it fixes. > > Sure, but is there a fix in Linus's branch for this that I should take > instead, or is it reverted in linux-next already? > > thanks, > > greg k-h
There is no fix now - but the bug that this fixed is minor (it fixes a crash in a configuration that is never set by lvm2) - and the regression is major (snapshot merging doesn't work).
I'll work with Mike on reverting it a providing a proper fix.
Mikulas
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