Hi Linus, Let's try this again... We're finally happy with the DM livelock issue, and it's also passed overnight testing and the corruption regression test. The end result is much nicer now too, which is great. Outside of that fix, there's a pull request for NVMe with two small fixes, and a regression fix for BFQ from this merge window. The BFQ fix looks bigger than it is, it's 90% comment updates. Please pull! git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git tags/for-linus-20181207 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Israel Rukshin (1): nvmet-rdma: fix response use after free James Smart (1): nvme: validate controller state before rescheduling keep alive Jens Axboe (2): blk-mq: punt failed direct issue to dispatch list Merge branch 'nvme-4.20' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme into for-linus Paolo Valente (1): block, bfq: fix decrement of num_active_groups block/bfq-iosched.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- block/bfq-iosched.h | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- block/bfq-wf2q.c | 5 ++- block/blk-mq.c | 33 +++----------------- drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 10 +++++- drivers/nvme/target/rdma.c | 3 +- 6 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-) -- Jens Axboe