This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled block: fix surprise removal for drivers calling blk_set_queue_dying to the 5.16-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: block-fix-surprise-removal-for-drivers-calling-blk_set_queue_dying.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.