From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stefan.bader@canonical.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com
Subject: Re: Please back-port git commit 196cfe2ae8fcdc03b3c7d627e7dfe8c0ce7229f9 and 89153b5cae9f40c224a5d321665a97bf14220c2c to 3.0.x
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:51:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110831185110.GA11782@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1314778698.28989.28.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:18:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 11:23 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > Hey Greg,
> >
> > I've two patches that are in Linus's upstream kernel, but I neglected to
> > put the stable@kernel.org on them (duh!). Both Fedora and Ubuntu are carrying
> > those two patches - but it would be nice if other distros got them.
> >
> > The two patches are:
> >
> > commit 196cfe2ae8fcdc03b3c7d627e7dfe8c0ce7229f9
> > Author: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
> > Date: Thu Jul 14 15:30:22 2011 +0200
> >
> > xen-blkfront: Drop name and minor adjustments for emulated scsi devices
> >
> > commit 89153b5cae9f40c224a5d321665a97bf14220c2c
> > Author: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
> > Date: Thu Jul 14 15:30:37 2011 +0200
> >
> > xen-blkfront: Fix one off warning about name clash
> >
> > Please back-port them to 3.0.x kernel. Thank
>
> On a related note having this in stable/longterm (including 2.6.32.y)
> seems like a good idea? (it was already in the 3.0 baseline)
>
> commit 4352b47ab7918108b389a48d2163c9a4c2aaf139
> Author: Marek Marczykowski <marmarek@mimuw.edu.pl>
> Date: Tue May 3 12:04:52 2011 -0400
>
> xen-blkfront: fix data size for xenbus_gather in blkfront_connect
>
> barrier variable is int, not long. This overflow caused another variable
> override: "err" (in PV code) and "binfo" (in xenlinux code -
> drivers/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c). The later caused incorrect device
> flags (RO/removable etc).
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski <marmarek@mimuw.edu.pl>
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
> [v1: Changed title]
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
It might, but it doesn't seem to apply to the .32 or .33-longterm
kernels at all, so I would need a backported version to be able to apply
it successfully.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-31 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-22 15:23 Please back-port git commit 196cfe2ae8fcdc03b3c7d627e7dfe8c0ce7229f9 and 89153b5cae9f40c224a5d321665a97bf14220c2c to 3.0.x Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-08-22 19:00 ` Greg KH
2011-08-31 8:18 ` Ian Campbell
2011-08-31 18:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-09-03 10:55 ` Ian Campbell
2011-09-06 17:27 ` Greg KH
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