From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:7042 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932628AbcFQPwJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:52:09 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098416.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.11/8.16.0.11) with SMTP id u5HFnLpL076568 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:52:08 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com (e33.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.151]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 23kqthvgnm-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:52:08 -0400 Received: from localhost by e33.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:52:07 -0600 Subject: Re: SCSI fix (a621bac3)missing in stable From: James Bottomley To: Jinpu Wang , "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , stable , Jiri Slaby , Sebastian Parschauer , Yun Wang , Gi-Oh Kim Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 08:51:58 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <20160614200314.GA3267@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1466178718.2271.25.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 17:29 +0200, Jinpu Wang wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Jinpu Wang > wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Greg KH < > > gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 06:47:40PM +0200, Jinpu Wang wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > We found the SCSI fix is missing in any stable only in linux > > > > 4.7-rc2 > > > > [PATCH] scsi_lib: correctly retry failed zero length > > > > REQ_TYPE_FS > > > > commands > > > > > > > > commit a621bac3044ed6f7ec5fa0326491b2d4838bfa93 upstream. > > > > > > > > So we backport & tested on linux-3.12 (as we're using this > > > > kernel). > > > > Could you review if we did it right? > > > > > > This "backport" includes a bunch of checks and comments that are > > > not in > > > the upstream kernel, so I don't really want to include it in the > > > 3.14-stable queue unless you get the scsi maintainers to ack it. > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > greg k-h > > > > Thanks Greg! > > > > Hi James, hi Martin > > > > Could you give your Ack on the patch? > > > > -- > > Ping? How can I review this? What you're proposing certainly isn't a backport. What you're actually trying to do is to port around this commit: ommit bc85dc500f9df9b2eec15077e5046672c46adeaa Author: Christoph Hellwig Date: Thu May 1 16:51:03 2014 +0200 scsi: remove scsi_end_request Have you tried simply backporting that to your tree and then applying to work around? James