Re: Patch "scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix data integrity failure for JBOD (passthrough) devices" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 02:26:31PM +0530, Sumit Saxena wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
> >Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 2:19 PM
> >To: Sumit Saxena
> >Cc: Kashyap Desai; emilne@redhat.com; hare@suse.com;
> >martin.petersen@oracle.com; thenzl@redhat.com; stable@vger.kernel.org;
> >stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
> >Subject: Re: Patch "scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix data integrity failure for
> JBOD
> >(passthrough) devices" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree
> >
> >On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 02:15:10PM +0530, Sumit Saxena wrote:
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
> >> >Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 1:49 PM
> >> >To: kashyap.desai@broadcom.com; emilne@redhat.com;
> >> >gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; hare@suse.com;
> >> >martin.petersen@oracle.com; sumit.saxena@broadcom.com;
> >> >thenzl@redhat.com
> >> >Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org; stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
> >> >Subject: Patch "scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix data integrity failure for
> >> >JBOD
> >> >(passthrough) devices" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >> >
> >> >    scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix data integrity failure for JBOD
> >> > (passthrough)
> >> devices
> >> >
> >> >to the 4.8-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:
> >> >
> >> >scsi-megaraid_sas-fix-data-integrity-failure-for-jbod-passthrough-
> >> >devices.patch
> >> >and it can be found in the queue-4.8 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.
> >>
> >> There will be follow up patch which I will be sending in sometime so
> >> follow patch needs to be applied along with this patch.
> >
> >Does that mean that this patch on its own is broken?
> >
> >confused,
> Yes this patch is broken and follow up patch will fix that. I am doing
> some testing with fix and will send it in sometime.

So should I drop this one from the stable trees until that one is
merged?

thanks,

greg k-h