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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:06:39 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] vfs: iversion truncate bug fix
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 04:46:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:33:49 -0500
> Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 15:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:26:30 -0500
> > > Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 12:54 +0200, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
> > > > > When a file is truncated with truncate()/ftruncate() and then closed,
> > > > > iversion is not updated. This patch uses ATTR_SIZE flag as an indication
> > > > > to increment iversion.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> 
> > > > (Stable should be cc'ed on this patch.)
> > > 
> > > why?
> > 
> > Why backported?
> 
> Yes.  If you want to submit the patch to the -stable maintainer then
> you should explain to him why the fix is important enough to warrant
> doing that.  That involves explaining the user-visible effects of
> the bug.
> 
> >  The IMA measurement list could be incomplete.
> 
> In more detail than this.  Maybe he knows what the above sentence
> means, but I sure don't.

Nope, I don't either :)