Hi Jens, Please consider pulling the following changes for md-6.9 on top of your for-6.9/block branch. The major changes are: 1. Cleanup redundant checks, by Yu Kuai. 2. Remove deprecated headers, by Marc Zyngier and Song Liu. 3. Concurrency fixes, by Li Lingfeng. 4. Memory leak fix, by Li Nan. Thanks, Song The following changes since commit 3bca7640b4c50621b94365a1746f4b86116fec56: blk-throttle: Eliminate redundant checks for data direction (2024-02-05 10:16:12 -0700) are available in the Git repository at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/song/md.git tags/md-6.9-20240216 for you to fetch changes up to 6cf350658736681b9d6b0b6e58c5c76b235bb4c4: md: fix kmemleak of rdev->serial (2024-02-12 09:20:08 -0800) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Li Lingfeng (2): md: get rdev->mddev with READ_ONCE() md: use RCU lock to protect traversal in md_spares_need_change() Li Nan (1): md: fix kmemleak of rdev->serial Marc Zyngier (1): md/linear: Get rid of md-linear.h Song Liu (1): md/multipath: Remove md-multipath.h Yu Kuai (2): md: remove redundant check of 'mddev->sync_thread' md: remove redundant md_wakeup_thread() drivers/md/md-linear.h | 17 ----------------- drivers/md/md-multipath.h | 32 -------------------------------- drivers/md/md.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++-------------------------------- drivers/md/raid5.c | 6 ++---- 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 drivers/md/md-linear.h delete mode 100644 drivers/md/md-multipath.h