From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50796 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755370AbcEFRbX (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2016 13:31:23 -0400 Subject: Patch "null_blk: add lightnvm null_blk device to the nullb_list" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree To: ww.tao0320@gmail.com, axboe@fb.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 12:30:40 -0400 Message-ID: <146255224010183@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled null_blk: add lightnvm null_blk device to the nullb_list to the 4.5-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: null_blk-add-lightnvm-null_blk-device-to-the-nullb_list.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 3681c85dffda70e551dead31c8d102bd69033fe8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wenwei Tao Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 00:27:04 +0800 Subject: null_blk: add lightnvm null_blk device to the nullb_list From: Wenwei Tao commit 3681c85dffda70e551dead31c8d102bd69033fe8 upstream. After register null_blk devices into lightnvm, we forget to add these devices to the the nullb_list, makes them invisible to the null_blk driver. Signed-off-by: Wenwei Tao Fixes: a514379b0c77 ("null_blk: oops when initializing without lightnvm") Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/block/null_blk.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/block/null_blk.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.c @@ -742,10 +742,11 @@ static int null_add_dev(void) add_disk(disk); +done: mutex_lock(&lock); list_add_tail(&nullb->list, &nullb_list); mutex_unlock(&lock); -done: + return 0; out_cleanup_lightnvm: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ww.tao0320@gmail.com are queue-4.5/null_blk-add-lightnvm-null_blk-device-to-the-nullb_list.patch