Re: [stable] [PATCH 000 of 2] md: Fixes for md in 2.6.23

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:36:30PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007 8:43 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Careful, it looks like you cherry picked commit 4ae3f847 "md: raid5:
> > > fix clearing of biofill operations" which ended up misapplied in
> > > Linus' tree,  You should either also pick up def6ae26 "md: fix
> > > misapplied patch in raid5.c" or I can resend the original "raid5: fix
> > > clearing of biofill operations."
> > >
> > > The other patch for -stable "raid5: fix unending write sequence" is
> > > currently in -mm.
> >
> > Hm, I've attached the two patches that I have right now in the -stable
> > tree so far (still have over 100 patches to go, so I might not have
> > gotten to them yet if you have sent them).  These were sent to me by
> > Andrew on their way to Linus.  if I should drop either one, or add
> > another one, please let me know.
> >
> 
> Drop md-raid5-fix-clearing-of-biofill-operations.patch and replace it
> with the attached
> md-raid5-not-raid6-fix-clearing-of-biofill-operations.patch (the
> original sent to Neil).
> 
> The critical difference is that the replacement patch touches
> handle_stripe5, not handle_stripe6.  Diffing the patches shows the
> changes for hunk #3:
> 
> -@@ -2903,6 +2907,13 @@ static void handle_stripe6(struct stripe
> +@@ -2630,6 +2634,13 @@ static void handle_stripe5(struct stripe_head *sh)

Ah, ok, thanks, will do that.

> raid5-fix-unending-write-sequence.patch is in -mm and I believe is
> waiting on an Acked-by from Neil?

I don't see it in Linus's tree yet, so I can't apply it to -stable...

thanks,

greg k-h