Re: Patch "block: fix cached zone reports on devices with native zone append" has been added to the 6.18-stable tree

Re: Patch "block: fix cached zone reports on devices with native zone append" has been added to the 6.18-stable tree

[Damien Le Moal]

On 12/15/25 09:37, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     block: fix cached zone reports on devices with native zone append
> 
> to the 6.18-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:
>      block-fix-cached-zone-reports-on-devices-with-native.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-6.18 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.

Sasha,

This is a fix for a new feature that was queued for and is now added to 6.19. So
backporting this to stable and LTS kernels is not advisable.


-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research

Re: Patch "block: fix cached zone reports on devices with native zone append" has been added to the 6.18-stable tree

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 10:20:44AM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>On 12/15/25 09:37, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>
>>     block: fix cached zone reports on devices with native zone append
>>
>> to the 6.18-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:
>>      block-fix-cached-zone-reports-on-devices-with-native.patch
>> and it can be found in the queue-6.18 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.
>
>Sasha,
>
>This is a fix for a new feature that was queued for and is now added to 6.19. So
>backporting this to stable and LTS kernels is not advisable.

I can drop it. It was picked up because the Fixes tag pointed to an older commit:

Fixes: a6aa36e957a1 ("block: Remove zone write plugs when handling native zone append writes")

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

Re: Patch "block: fix cached zone reports on devices with native zone append" has been added to the 6.18-stable tree

[Damien Le Moal]

On 12/15/25 10:32, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 10:20:44AM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> On 12/15/25 09:37, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>>
>>>     block: fix cached zone reports on devices with native zone append
>>>
>>> to the 6.18-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:
>>>      block-fix-cached-zone-reports-on-devices-with-native.patch
>>> and it can be found in the queue-6.18 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.
>>
>> Sasha,
>>
>> This is a fix for a new feature that was queued for and is now added to 6.19. So
>> backporting this to stable and LTS kernels is not advisable.
> 
> I can drop it. It was picked up because the Fixes tag pointed to an older commit:
> 
> Fixes: a6aa36e957a1 ("block: Remove zone write plugs when handling native zone append writes")

Understood. This backport will not cause any issue even if you keep it. But it
is not necessary either.


-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research