On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:58:08AM +0100, Filipe Manana wrote: > However that's a large patch set which depends on a lot of previous > cleanups, some of which landed in the 5.3 merge window, > Backporting all those patches is against the backport policies for > stable release [1], since many of the dependencies are cleanup patches > and many are large (well over the 100 lines limit). > > On the other it's not possible to send a fix for stable releases that > doesn't land on Linus' tree first, as there's nothing to fix on the > current merge window (5.4) since that deadlock can't happen there. In exceptional cases it's possible to send a stable-specific backport that's supposedly equivalent to the code that's in Linus' tree. As you'd analyzed it and concluded that it's not necessary, we don't need to play that card now.
