Patch "block: Initialize max_dev_sectors to 0" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "block: Initialize max_dev_sectors to 0" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    block: Initialize max_dev_sectors to 0

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     block-initialize-max_dev_sectors-to-0.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 5f009d3f8e6685fe8c6215082c1696a08b411220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:52:47 -0700
Subject: block: Initialize max_dev_sectors to 0

From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>

commit 5f009d3f8e6685fe8c6215082c1696a08b411220 upstream.

The new queue limit is not used by the majority of block drivers, and
should be initialized to 0 for the driver's requested settings to be used.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 block/blk-settings.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/block/blk-settings.c
+++ b/block/blk-settings.c
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ void blk_set_default_limits(struct queue
 	lim->seg_boundary_mask = BLK_SEG_BOUNDARY_MASK;
 	lim->virt_boundary_mask = 0;
 	lim->max_segment_size = BLK_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE;
-	lim->max_sectors = lim->max_dev_sectors = lim->max_hw_sectors =
-		BLK_SAFE_MAX_SECTORS;
+	lim->max_sectors = lim->max_hw_sectors = BLK_SAFE_MAX_SECTORS;
+	lim->max_dev_sectors = 0;
 	lim->chunk_sectors = 0;
 	lim->max_write_same_sectors = 0;
 	lim->max_discard_sectors = 0;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keith.busch@intel.com are

queue-4.4/block-initialize-max_dev_sectors-to-0.patch