This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md/raid5: fix deadlock that raid5d() wait for itself to clear MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING to the 5.4-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: md-raid5-fix-deadlock-that-raid5d-wait-for-itself-to-clear-md_sb_change_pending.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.