Re: [GIT PULL] md-6.8 20240305

[Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Mar 05 2024 at  1:49P -0500,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:

> On 3/5/24 11:47 AM, Song Liu wrote:
> > Hi Jens, 
> > 
> > Please consider pulling the following fixes for md-6.8 on top of your 
> > block-6.8 branch. This set fixes two issues:
> > 
> > 1. dmraid regression since 6.7 kernels. This issue was initially 
> >    reported in [1]. This set of fix has been reviewed and tested by
> >    md and dm folks. 
> > 
> > 2. raid5 hang since 6.7 kernel, reported in [2]. We haven't got a 
> >    better fix for this issue yet. This revert is a workaround. It has
> >    been applied to 6.7 stable kernels [3], and proved to be affective.
> >    We will look more into this issue for a better fix. 
> > 
> > We understand this is really last minute for the 6.8 release. But based 
> > on the data we have, these changes are safe and fix issues in the 6.8 
> > kernel. 
> 
> There's just no way we're doing this much at this late in the process,
> particularly when these are a) not introduced in the 6.8 cycle, and b)
> we're not even a week away from the merge window. Doing them now for 6.8
> would just further risk stability there, no matter how well it's tested,
> and it won't really reduce the time to stable anyway. Hence no, please
> add these to the 6.9 queue.

I agree.

Song, please revisit each commit's header to make sure they are
flagged for stable@ if appropriate (e.g. either add a Fixes: tag or
explicitly Cc: stable@).

Thanks,
Mike