linux-kernel - Re: [ 00/73] 3.2.25-stable review

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Message-ID: <1344205565.13142.46.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:26:05 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [ 00/73] 3.2.25-stable review

On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 08:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 05:43 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.2.25 release.
> > There are 73 patches in this series, which will be posted as responses
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> > 
> > Responses should be made by Thu Aug  2 10:00:00 UTC 2012.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> > A combined patch relative to 3.2.24 will be posted as an additional
> > response to this, and the diffstat can be found below.
> 
> I tested this against configs I normally test against my own code, and I
> hit this bug:
[...]
> I then checked against 3.2.24 and it bugged too, as well as vanilla 3.2.
> I then checked against 3.3 and it did not bug. I kicked off a 'reverse'
> bisect with ktest (bad is good and good is bad) and found the fix:
> 
> commit 3f9a5aabd0a9fe0e0cd308506f48963d79169aa7
> Author: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
> floppy: Cleanup disk->queue before caling put_disk() if add_disk() was never called
> 
> I applied it against v3.2.24 and it solved the bug. I did not apply it
> against 25-rc1, but I'm pretty sure it should work for that too.
> 
> I haven't checked 3.0 if that has an issue with my config.
> 
> Anyway, please apply this patch to stable 3.2. Either for 25 or for 26.
[...]

Added to the queue for 3.2; it will go into 3.2.27-rc1 now.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Computers are not intelligent.	They only think they are.

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