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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: sashal@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com, caspar@linux.alibaba.com,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] virtio-blk: close udev startup race condition as default groups
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 12:56:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YB/Vgb4y4Dts0Y2G@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210207114656.32141-2-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>

On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 07:46:54PM +0800, Jeffle Xu wrote:
> commit fef912bf860e8e7e48a2bfb978a356bba743a8b7 upstream.
> commit e982c4d0a29b1d61fbe7716a8dcf8984936d6730 upstream.
> 
> Similar to commit 9e07f4e24379 ("zram: close udev startup race condition
> as default groups"), this is a merge of [1, 2], since [1] may be too
> large size to be merged into -stable tree.

Why is it too big?

> This issue has been introduced since v2.6.36 by [3].
> 
> [1] fef912bf860e, block: genhd: add 'groups' argument to device_add_disk
> [2] e982c4d0a29b, virtio-blk: modernize sysfs attribute creation
> [3] a5eb9e4ff18a, virtio_blk: Add 'serial' attribute to virtio-blk devices (v2)

What userspace tools are now hitting this issue?  If it's a real
problem, let's take the real commits, right?

Same for the other patches in this series.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-07 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-07 11:46 [PATCH 0/3] close udev startup race condition for several devices Jeffle Xu
2021-02-07 11:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] virtio-blk: close udev startup race condition as default groups Jeffle Xu
2021-02-07 11:56   ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-02-07 22:46     ` Sasha Levin
2021-02-08  1:40     ` JeffleXu
2021-02-17 13:12       ` JeffleXu
2021-02-17 13:26         ` Greg KH
2021-02-18  2:23           ` JeffleXu
2021-02-07 11:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] aoe: " Jeffle Xu
2021-02-07 11:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] nvme: " Jeffle Xu
2021-02-07 11:52 ` [PATCH 0/3] close udev startup race condition for several devices JeffleXu

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