Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: mballoc: Fix spectre gadget in ext4_mb_regular_allocator

From: Jeremy Cline
Date: Mon Jul 30 2018 - 14:47:04 EST


Hi Ted,

On 07/30/2018 02:36 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Hey Jeremy,
>
> I think you are also going to be changing the 1/3 patch from the
> original patch series that this was part of. That's correct, right?
>
> It would be easier for me if you could simply make all of the
> revisions you plan to make for the patch series, and then upload a
> full v2 of the entire patch series.
>
> Right now I've mentally marked the entire patch series as "waiting
> forh v2". So when you send a V2 version of individual patch out of
> that series, it leaves things unclear when/if you plan to update any
> of other patches in the series.

I dropped patch 1/3 and 2/3 from the original series because they can
both be covered by some sanitation in fs/quota/quota.c, so the this is
only patch from the v1 series that should be applied.

Sorry for not being more clear!

Cheers,
Jeremy