On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 08:51:06PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> > Von: "John Ogness" <john.ogn...@linutronix.de>
> > An: "richard" <rich...@nod.at>
> > CC: "linux-mtd" <linux-...@lists.infradead.org>, "linux-kernel"
> > <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. April 2020 16:56:31
> > Betreff: Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Fix ubifs_tnc_lookup() usage in
> > do_kill_orphans()
>
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > Could you CC this patch to stable? It fixes a serious problem that I am
> > seeing on real devices (i.e. Linux not being able to mount its root
> > filesystem after a power cut). Thanks.
>
> Just checked again, better ask stable maintainers. :-)
>
> Stable maintainers, can you please make sure this patch will make it
> into stable?
> The upstream commit is:
> 4ab25ac8b2b5 ("ubifs: Fix ubifs_tnc_lookup() usage in do_kill_orphans()")
>
> I always thought havings a Fixes-Tag is enough to make sure it will
> get picked up. Isn't this the case?
No it is not, please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.
Our scripts are doing better to dig out stuff where maintainers mess up
and forget to put the cc: stable tag, but you can never rely on it.
Please stick with the above rules that have been there for 15+ years :)
thanks,
greg k-h
