Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:51:10 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Please back-port git commit 196cfe2ae8fcdc03b3c7d627e7dfe8c0ce7229f9 and 89153b5cae9f40c224a5d321665a97bf14220c2c to 3.0.x |
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:18:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 11:23 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > Hey Greg, > > > > I've two patches that are in Linus's upstream kernel, but I neglected to > > put the stable@kernel.org on them (duh!). Both Fedora and Ubuntu are carrying > > those two patches - but it would be nice if other distros got them. > > > > The two patches are: > > > > commit 196cfe2ae8fcdc03b3c7d627e7dfe8c0ce7229f9 > > Author: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> > > Date: Thu Jul 14 15:30:22 2011 +0200 > > > > xen-blkfront: Drop name and minor adjustments for emulated scsi devices > > > > commit 89153b5cae9f40c224a5d321665a97bf14220c2c > > Author: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> > > Date: Thu Jul 14 15:30:37 2011 +0200 > > > > xen-blkfront: Fix one off warning about name clash > > > > Please back-port them to 3.0.x kernel. Thank > > On a related note having this in stable/longterm (including 2.6.32.y) > seems like a good idea? (it was already in the 3.0 baseline) > > commit 4352b47ab7918108b389a48d2163c9a4c2aaf139 > Author: Marek Marczykowski <marmarek@mimuw.edu.pl> > Date: Tue May 3 12:04:52 2011 -0400 > > xen-blkfront: fix data size for xenbus_gather in blkfront_connect > > barrier variable is int, not long. This overflow caused another variable > override: "err" (in PV code) and "binfo" (in xenlinux code - > drivers/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c). The later caused incorrect device > flags (RO/removable etc). > > Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski <marmarek@mimuw.edu.pl> > Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> > [v1: Changed title] > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
It might, but it doesn't seem to apply to the .32 or .33-longterm kernels at all, so I would need a backported version to be able to apply it successfully.
thanks,
greg k-h
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