This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nvme/pci: Fix write and poll queue types
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nvme-pci-fix-write-and-poll-queue-types.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit ac8b9feefbf1b7465f501d9a0438c75f2de45440
Author: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Dec 7 01:51:54 2019 +0900
nvme/pci: Fix write and poll queue types
[ Upstream commit 3f68baf706ec68c4120867c25bc439c845fe3e17 ]
The number of poll or write queues should never be negative. Use unsigned
types so that it's not possible to break have the driver not allocate
any queues.
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index 869f462e6b6e..29d7427c2b19 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -68,14 +68,14 @@ static int io_queue_depth = 1024;
module_param_cb(io_queue_depth, &io_queue_depth_ops, &io_queue_depth, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(io_queue_depth, "set io queue depth, should >= 2");
-static int write_queues;
-module_param(write_queues, int, 0644);
+static unsigned int write_queues;
+module_param(write_queues, uint, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(write_queues,
"Number of queues to use for writes. If not set, reads and writes "
"will share a queue set.");
-static int poll_queues;
-module_param(poll_queues, int, 0644);
+static unsigned int poll_queues;
+module_param(poll_queues, uint, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(poll_queues, "Number of queues to use for polled IO.");
struct nvme_dev;
