Re: Please back-port git commit 196cfe2ae8fcdc03b3c7d627e7dfe8c0ce7229f9 and 89153b5cae9f40c224a5d321665a97bf14220c2c to 3.0.x

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:55:08AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 11:51 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This seems to do the trick.

Thanks, that worked, now queued up.

greg k-h