This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled [PATCH] lightnvm: disable the subsystem to the 4.19-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: lightnvm-disable-the-subsystem.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f1986adb5b8aed3ab9374f4183cc828c3b114ce9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 11:31:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] lightnvm: disable the subsystem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In commit 9ea9b9c48387 ("remove the lightnvm subsystem") the lightnvm subsystem was removed as there is no hardware in the wild for it, and the code is known to have problems. This should also be disabled for older LTS kernels as well to prevent anyone from accidentally using it. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Matias Bjørling <mb@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Javier González <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/lightnvm/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/lightnvm/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/Kconfig @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ menuconfig NVM bool "Open-Channel SSD target support" - depends on BLOCK && PCI + depends on BLOCK && PCI && BROKEN select BLK_DEV_NVME help Say Y here to get to enable Open-channel SSDs. Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/media-vicodec-upon-release-call-m2m-release-before-freeing-ctrl-handler.patch queue-4.19/floppy-disable-fdrawcmd-by-default.patch queue-4.19/ia64-kprobes-fix-to-pass-correct-trampoline-address-to-the-handler.patch queue-4.19/hamradio-remove-needs_free_netdev-to-avoid-uaf.patch queue-4.19/revert-ia64-kprobes-fix-to-pass-correct-trampoline-address-to-the-handler.patch queue-4.19/net-sched-cls_u32-fix-netns-refcount-changes-in-u32_change.patch queue-4.19/lightnvm-disable-the-subsystem.patch queue-4.19/hamradio-defer-6pack-kfree-after-unregister_netdev.patch queue-4.19/powerpc-64s-unmerge-ex_lr-and-ex_dar.patch queue-4.19/revert-net-ethernet-stmmac-fix-altr_tse_pcs-function-when-using-a-fixed-link.patch queue-4.19/revert-ia64-kprobes-use-generic-kretprobe-trampoline-handler.patch queue-4.19/powerpc-64-interrupt-temporarily-save-ppr-on-stack-to-fix-register-corruption-due-to-slb-miss.patch