Re: [PATCH 6.6 0/4] fix kernel crash for xfs/235 test

On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 7:33=E2=80=AFPM Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@gmail.=
com> wrote:
>
> I have changed teams so I no longer work on kernel and I don't believe
> my xfs maintenance work was backfilled ;(
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 7:19=E2=80=AFAM Carlos Maiolino <[email protected]> =
wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 09:31:41AM -0400, Hamza Mahfooz wrote:
> > > Cc: [email protected]
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 09:13:45AM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 03:19:24PM -0400, Hamza Mahfooz wrote:
> > > > > Cc: Carlos Maiolino <[email protected]>
> > > >
> > > > FWIW I don't maintain the stable trees I really don't have time for
> > > > that. Darrick/Leah have been doing a best effort case for that, but
> > > > again, this is mostly a best effort so we shouldn't expect them to =
be
> > > > looking/picking up every single possible patch suggested for stable=
.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Now that you mention it, the xfs-stable mailing list seems to be pret=
ty
> > > much dead (i.e. the last time fixes from it were merged into stable w=
as
> > > almost a year ago). I guess no one is really working on it anymore?
> >
> > IIRC Darrick started it, I personally never worked on it, but I didn't
> > follow the evolution there.

I think at this point we can officially declare xfs in stable <=3D 6.6
unmaintained
maybe need to send patches to LTS MAINTAINERS.

The best chance in this case to apply the requested fix to 6.6.y is that th=
e
author (Darrick) approves it.

Thanks,
Amir.