This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled block: Fix the maximum minor value is blk_alloc_ext_minor() to the 5.17-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-the-maximum-minor-value-is-blk_alloc_ext_minor.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.