Re: (resend) [PATCH [linux-4.14.y]] dm cache: submit writethrough writes in parallel to origin and cache

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 02:38:52PM -0500, John Donnelly wrote:
> > On Jul 27, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:00:14AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > > This mail needs to be saent to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (now cc'd).
> > >
> > > Greg et al: please backport 2df3bae9a6543e90042291707b8db0cbfbae9ee9
> >
> > Hm, what's the issue that this patch addresses? It's not clear from the
> > commit message.
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > Sasha
>
> HI Sasha ,
>
> In an off-line conversation I had with Mike , he indicated that :
>
>
> commit 1b17159e52bb31f982f82a6278acd7fab1d3f67b
> Author: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Feb 28 18:00:53 2020 -0500
>
>   dm bio record: save/restore bi_end_io and bi_integrity
>
>
> commit 248aa2645aa7fc9175d1107c2593cc90d4af5a4e
> Author: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Feb 28 18:11:53 2020 -0500
>
>   dm integrity: use dm_bio_record and dm_bio_restore
>
>
> Were picked up  in  "stable" kernels picked up even though
> neither was marked for stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Adding this missing  commit :
>
> 2df3bae9a6543e90042291707b8db0cbfbae9ee9
>
>
> Completes the series

Should we just revert those two commits instead if they're not needed?

--
Thanks,
Sasha