18 Sep
2020
18 Sep
'20
2:05 p.m.
Hello Sasha,
On 9/18/20 7:27 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu
[ Upstream commit 244adf6426ee31a83f397b700d964cff12a247d3 ]
This fixes the direct I/O versus writeback race which can reveal stale data, and it improves the tail latency of commits on slow devices.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200125022254.1101588-1-tytso@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org
I see that the subjected patch is being taken into many different stable trees. I remember there was a fixes patch on top of this[1]. Below thread[1] has more details. Just wanted to point this one out. Please ignore if already taken.
[1]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg72219.html
-ritesh