Re: [PATCH] bcache: prevent crash on changing writeback_running

2014-12-02 Thread Stefan Bader
On 19.08.2014 20:03, Slava Pestov wrote: > Thanks, this is now in our development branch. It has been a while but I just went back there and checked linux and linux-next but cannot find this change anywhere. I think it is a rather simple bugfix. So I start to wonder where it went and when it would

Re: [PATCH] bcache: prevent crash on changing writeback_running

2014-08-21 Thread Stefan Bader
On 19.08.2014 20:03, Slava Pestov wrote: > Thanks, this is now in our development branch. Thanks. :) This kind of brings up another question: how are stable patches handled for bcache. Someone handling them centrally like for the network stack or tagging for stable and if that missed, individual p

Re: [PATCH] bcache: prevent crash on changing writeback_running

2014-08-19 Thread Slava Pestov
Thanks, this is now in our development branch. On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Stefan Bader wrote: > commit a664d0f05a2ec02c8f042db536d84d15d6e19e81 > bcache: fix crash on shutdown in passthrough mode > > added a safeguard in the shutdown case. At least while not being > attached it is also

[PATCH] bcache: prevent crash on changing writeback_running

2014-08-19 Thread Stefan Bader
commit a664d0f05a2ec02c8f042db536d84d15d6e19e81 bcache: fix crash on shutdown in passthrough mode added a safeguard in the shutdown case. At least while not being attached it is also possible to trigger a kernel bug by writing into writeback_running. This change adds the same check before try