linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 25/26] blk: Ensure users for current->bio

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Date:   Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:45:58 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     Jinpu Wang <jinpu.wang@...fitbricks.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 25/26] blk: Ensure users for current->bio_list can
 see the full list.

On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 10:33 +0200, Jinpu Wang wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Ben Hutchings
> <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 10:38 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >>
> >> ------------------
> >>
> >> From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
> >>
> >> commit f5fe1b51905df7cfe4fdfd85c5fb7bc5b71a094f upstream.
[...]
> > Why did you drop the changes in drivers/md/dm.c?
[...]
> Because the code snip doesn't exist in 4.4.

It does, and the upstream patch applies to it without any changes!  I'm
objecting to this and the preceding patch until there's a proper
explanation of why device-mapper should be excluded from the backport.

I've attached an alternate version of this patch that has the
device-mapper part restored.  While I haven't tested this (don't know
what the test case would be) I think it is rather more likely to be a
correct backport to 4.4.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.


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