On Mar 20, 2013, at 6:04 PM, NeilBrown wrote: >> >> On a different topic, I've noticed the following commits in 'for-next': >> 90584fc MD: Prevent sysfs operations on uninitialized kobjects >> e3620a3 MD RAID5: Avoid accessing gendisk or queue structs when not available >> but these are not in 3.9.0-rc3. They should make their way into 3.9.0 as well as 3.8.0. (They apply cleanly to the 3.8 kernel, but I hadn't bothered to notify 'stable' - only mention the regression was introduced in 3.8-rc1.) > > They are due to be sent to Linus today. > The second one is tagged for -stable and will go to 3.8.x (I think 3.7.x is > closed). > The first isn't - my quick examination suggested that the current code is > safe but not ideal. If you think it is appropriate for -stable (i.e. fixes > a real bug that could hurt users) let me know why and I'll make sure it goes > to -stable. Yes, the second is the important one. We don't need the first backported to stable. Thanks! brassow-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
