linux-kernel - Re: Linux 5.10

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Date:   Mon, 14 Dec 2020 06:52:58 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 5.10

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 12:31:47AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 03:03:29PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  > Ok, here it is - 5.10 is tagged and pushed out.
>  > 
>  > I pretty much always wish that the last week was even calmer than it
>  > was, and that's true here too. There's a fair amount of fixes in here,
>  > including a few last-minute reverts for things that didn't get fixed,
>  > but nothing makes me go "we need another week".
> 
> ...
> 
>  > Mike Snitzer (1):
>  >       md: change mddev 'chunk_sectors' from int to unsigned
> 
> Seems to be broken.  This breaks mounting my raid6 partition:
> 
> [   87.290698] attempt to access beyond end of device
>                md0: rw=4096, want=13996467328, limit=6261202944
> [   87.293371] attempt to access beyond end of device
>                md0: rw=4096, want=13998564480, limit=6261202944
> [   87.296045] BTRFS warning (device md0): couldn't read tree root
> [   87.300056] BTRFS error (device md0): open_ctree failed
> 
> Reverting it goes back to the -rc7 behaviour where it mounts fine.

If the developer/maintainer(s) agree, I can revert this and push out a
5.10.1, just let me know.

thanks,

greg k-h