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SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging/lustre/osc: Revert erroneous list_for_each_entry_safe use
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On Dec 7, 2016, at 5:40 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:53:48PM -0500, Oleg Drokin wrote:
>> I have been having a lot of unexplainable crashes in osc_lru_shrink
>> lately that I could not see a good explanation for and then I found
>> this patch that slip under the radar somehow that incorrectly
>> converted while loop for lru list iteration into
>> list_for_each_entry_safe totally ignoring that in the body of
>> the loop we drop spinlocks guarding this list and move list entries
>> around.
>> Not sure why it was not showing up right away, perhaps some of the
>> more recent LRU changes committed caused some extra pressure on this
>> code that finally highlighted the breakage.
>>
>> Reverts: 8adddc36b1fc ("staging: lustre: osc: Use list_for_each_entry_safe")
>> CC: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
>> ---
>> I also do not see this patch in any of the mailing lists I am subscribed to.
>> I wonder if there's a way to subscribe to those Greg's
>> "This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch ...."
>> emails that concern Lustre to get them even if I am not on the CC list in
>> the patch itself?
>
> This came in from the Outreacy application process, which now requires
> that they cc: the maintainers to catch this type of issue. So you
> should have seen these types of patches this last round, the commit you
> reference was done before that change happened, sorry.

Do you know approximate date range of when these patches ere sneaking in?
I'd like to take a look at the rest of it proactively just to see if there are
more undiscovered surprises?

> This change should go to stable kernels, so I'll mark it that way.

Thanks!

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