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

On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 02:31:01PM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 11:19:25AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 7:33 PM Leah Rumancik <[email protected]> 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 AM 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 pretty
> > > > > much dead (i.e. the last time fixes from it were merged into stable was
> > > > > 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 <= 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 the
> > author (Darrick) approves it.
> 
> Unfortunately this might be true. But let's wait for Darrick's input
> please. He's on vacations this week so will be unfair to make any
> decisions in this matter without his input.
> Also he has been still poking people to tag patches with LTS versions
> so even though he might not me dealing with the xfs-stable, he might still
> be driving work on LTS trees.

I've really only been doing QA work on 6.12/6.18 LTS.  Ted Tso might
still be doing the older ones.  Catherine left Oracle last year.

--D