From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752323Ab1HaS4z (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:56:55 -0400 Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:43814 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751904Ab1HaS4y (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:56:54 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: yfLrZyRgPmjlHYT7ZZF9opJIV+Xb1+IqPig682R1SY9U 1314817013 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:51:10 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Ian Campbell Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stefan.bader@canonical.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com Subject: Re: Please back-port git commit 196cfe2ae8fcdc03b3c7d627e7dfe8c0ce7229f9 and 89153b5cae9f40c224a5d321665a97bf14220c2c to 3.0.x Message-ID: <20110831185110.GA11782@kroah.com> References: <20110822152354.GA24763@dumpdata.com> <1314778698.28989.28.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1314778698.28989.28.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > 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 > > 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 > 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 > Acked-by: Ian Campbell > [v1: Changed title] > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 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