linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION][Stable][v3.12.y][v4.4.y][v4.9.y][v4.10.y][v4.11-rc1] scsi: storvsc: properly set residual data length on errors

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Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:03:06 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>,
        Long Li <longli@...rosoft.com>,
        "jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>
Subject: Re:
 [REGRESSION][Stable][v3.12.y][v4.4.y][v4.9.y][v4.10.y][v4.11-rc1] scsi:
 storvsc: properly set residual data length on errors

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 04:14:09PM +0000, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I decided not to send it to stable since problem was only observed on
> 4.11 but it is probably endemic to all GEN2 VM's

So, what does this mean?  What should stable@ do?  Nothing?  Ok, now
dropped this from my patch queue :)

thanks,

greg k-h