This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled [PATCH 1/2] Revert "md: change mddev 'chunk_sectors' from int to to the 5.10-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: revert-md-change-mddev-chunk_sectors-from-int-to.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 76f58e00133501dff1bd0c0f05d786e8fb01fcc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 17:48:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "md: change mddev 'chunk_sectors' from int to unsigned" This reverts commit 6ffeb1c3f8226244c08105bcdbeecc04bad6b89a. It causes problems :( Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/md.h +++ b/drivers/md/md.h @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ struct mddev { int external; /* metadata is * managed externally */ char metadata_type[17]; /* externally set*/ - unsigned int chunk_sectors; + int chunk_sectors; time64_t ctime, utime; int level, layout; char clevel[16]; @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ struct mddev { */ sector_t reshape_position; int delta_disks, new_level, new_layout; - unsigned int new_chunk_sectors; + int new_chunk_sectors; int reshape_backwards; struct md_thread *thread; /* management thread */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/revert-dm-raid-fix-discard-limits-for-raid1-and-raid10.patch queue-5.10/revert-md-change-mddev-chunk_sectors-from-int-to.patch