On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 01:45:02PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote: > > > > On Mar 18, 2024, at 7:14 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > How did this end up being a stable candidate? > > I pulled it into a backport of NFSD patches. It's needed to get a > subsequent upstream commit to apply cleanly. The series doesn't belong anywhere near -stable. It's a nice cleanup of block APIs, but not really a bug fix of any kind. It also is fairly invasive touching the block layer and the sd driver in addition to nfsd.