Re: request commit for 6.1 too // scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible array member for SGLs

Re: request commit for 6.1 too // scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible array member for SGLs

[Kees Cook]

On June 9, 2023 3:42:12 PM PDT, Frank Reppin <frank@undermydesk.org> wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I've already followed the reply instructions on LKML - but it somewhat
>messed up my message there (so probably nobody knows what I'm talking about) - however ...
>
>Earlier this year you've committed
>
>scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible array member for SGLs
>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git/commit/?id=a9a3629592ab
>
>... but it only made it into 6.3 at this time.
>
>I hereby kindly request to see this commit in LTS 6.1 too.

Sure! These requests are handled through the stable mailing list (now added to To:).

Greg, please backport a9a3629592ab to 6.1 (and 6.2).

Thanks!

-Kees

>
>Why?
>Debian Bookworm is soon to be released (RC4 at this moment) and is not yet aware of this issue...
>
>We're currently testing some new DELL servers and want to roll 'em out
>once Bookworm is released.
>Previous tests using Debian Bullseye (Kernel 5.10 based) where fine...
>but all of a sudden - with Debian Bookworm (Kernel 6.1 based) this weird
>call trace shows up in our logs - and this is hard to explain to QA ppl.
>
>Apart from this call trace showing up - I don't see any weird things.
>The /dev/disk/by-uuid/ thingie I wrote about in
>
>https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/6/9/1384
>
>is nonsense ofcourse - because upon further thinking about what I wrote
>it came apparent that the command I'm using does change/nullify the UUID
>I am talking about.
>
>Thankyou!
>Frank Reppin
>
>


-- 
Kees Cook

Re: request commit for 6.1 too // scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible array member for SGLs

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 08:00:16AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On June 9, 2023 3:42:12 PM PDT, Frank Reppin <frank@undermydesk.org> wrote:
> >Dear all,
> >
> >I've already followed the reply instructions on LKML - but it somewhat
> >messed up my message there (so probably nobody knows what I'm talking about) - however ...
> >
> >Earlier this year you've committed
> >
> >scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible array member for SGLs
> >https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git/commit/?id=a9a3629592ab
> >
> >... but it only made it into 6.3 at this time.
> >
> >I hereby kindly request to see this commit in LTS 6.1 too.
> 
> Sure! These requests are handled through the stable mailing list (now added to To:).
> 
> Greg, please backport a9a3629592ab to 6.1 (and 6.2).

6.2.y is long end-of-life (as shown on the front page of kernel.org), so
now queued up for 6.1.y only.

thanks,

greg k-h