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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 15:16:39 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
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Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] block: get the 1st and last bvec via
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On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 03:02:06PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 09:26:59AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 3:22 AM,  <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
> > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> > 
> > The simplest way is to apply commit 0e8bd6fdfb2b96eb(block: check virt
> > boundary in bio_will_gap()) before this patch.
> 
> You mean e0af29171aa8912e1ca95023b75ef336cd70d661, right?
> 0e8bd6fdfb2b96eb is a tree commit...

Ok, that all worked properly, thanks for the info.

greg k-h