From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C985631D72D; Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768296020; cv=none; b=Le2s3KYHVPp2sPgETQ4W9Dvk3MhlbqW5S3tNa5+NTg3kwUIXisFL1DcuH26zgdYmSrgk1UDwgIIcui2UfMG48NLMSiESMkXcPiRhcawCJHBqjY7BlRbv0Yl9O9DWEHg9AcooU177UihTgtvX4ZNWuIWRvCPnHmce61weS93dE9k= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768296020; c=relaxed/simple; bh=q8A4bDhi22pwhQ+jihqXhH+oXB2ePdZdau55pPBPme0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=bYe6hCyz802xDgvnyMltmrJjFRe+fceTUtaJbpBV+ciq78hXr1TEVY7IzS2FVhkxVzZ4wUaA++ijQ0r0pNdM63N5Hzb6aMGpoIyJJ2QCqn2jxhTVpKc9mkS6FlW8oZgpSaSZLyruo6WmwZwwfR7nBYpPB/ffjH8O94Hp8CX86ME= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=QAo2cDnY; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="QAo2cDnY" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A0261C116C6; Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:20:17 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1768296019; bh=q8A4bDhi22pwhQ+jihqXhH+oXB2ePdZdau55pPBPme0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=QAo2cDnY7o9wrg0sR1RKux8ykUxvt3AbOqbL/AyoEL+mcoC/90rdHEFPZ+gfyjssr 7Drx8K3zUrVkGguOPi78TzCZeitUp+JMjOrlequGdkRj//IXQhWHz/aX02qix/c5AM cJ397YmrRYh+mNozHtQvHW6mzHcYBXARy4mO8jYKdNZ47NrTQUW1NEyNuJfiPVm6Iw tABmfY07cydoqT2g9nmyCmxmpywX0cqO5A9cuAxc3DXndgOjoi++f39lNSygCtYIxM lJ/k5jnuNsUxsONycZYaT6ARlz44k8E2wnn3bd8wgDoIz6z3RLQGzCIEJwQ1FQDjrQ JobbYacTT1Vhg== Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:20:15 +0100 From: Christian Brauner To: Andrew Morton Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi , Zhiyu Zhang , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jack@suse.cz, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: avoid parent link count underflow in rmdir Message-ID: <20260113-rammen-unsinn-d9d5929ca2a0@brauner> References: <20260101111148.1437-1-zhiyuzhang999@gmail.com> <87secph8yi.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp> <87ms2idcph.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp> <20260112095230.167359094e9c48577b387e18@linux-foundation.org> <87cy3ed7c9.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp> <20260112103959.e5e956cd0d8b6f904e21827a@linux-foundation.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260112103959.e5e956cd0d8b6f904e21827a@linux-foundation.org> On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 10:39:59AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:16:54 +0900 OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > > > Andrew Morton writes: > > > > > On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:45:18 +0800 Zhiyu Zhang wrote: > > > > > >> Hi OGAWA, > > >> > > >> Sorry, I thought the further merge request would be done by the maintainers. > > >> > > >> What should I do then? > > > > > > That's OK - I have now taken a copy of the patch mainly to keep track > > > of it. It won't get lost. > > > > > > I thought Christian was handling fat patches now, but perhaps that's a > > > miscommunication? > > > > Hm, I was thinking Andrew is still handling the fat specific patch, and > > Christian is only handling patches when vfs related. > > > > Let me know if I need to do something. > > OK, thanks, seems I misremembered. I prefer to take anything that touches fs/ - apart from reasonable exceptions - to go through vfs tree. So I would prefer to take this patch.