From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] block bits Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:53:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20090202185345.GM30821@kernel.dk> References: <20090202131502.GH30821@kernel.dk> <49872DF3.3060401@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49872DF3.3060401@panasas.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi , open-osd mailing-list List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 02 2009, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > > > One critical bit in here, which fixes a reported oops from the iostat > > patch. The others are either trivial/minor or documentation. Please > > pull. > > > > git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus > > > > Alberto Bertogli (2): > > Fix misleading comment in bio.h > > bio.h: If they MUST be inlined, then use __always_inline > > > > Jens Axboe (3): > > block: fix oops in blk_queue_io_stat() > > block: fix inconsistent parenthesisation of QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT > > block: add text file detailing queue/ sysfs files > > > > Hi Jens. > > The bsg sense handling bug fix, is I think, a security breach in that > Kernel copies dangling Kernel stack back to user-mode. It might even > need a stable release. > > At the time I was thinking that since bsg is marked EXPERIMENTAL in > Kconfig then it must not be included in distro's Kernels by default, > but Benny noted that it is included in Fedora since FC8 or FC9. > > The patch I sent still applies I think? I'm sure it does, I didn't know if Tomo had swoopt it up himself. I'll add it to this branch. -- Jens Axboe