3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 01c681d4c70d64cb72142a2823f27c4146a02e63 upstream. The 'handle' is the device that the request is from. For the life-time of the ring we copy it from a request to a response so that the frontend is not surprised by it. But we do not need it - when we start processing I/Os we have our own 'struct phys_req' which has only most essential information about the request. In fact the 'vbd_translate' ends up over-writing the preq.dev with a value from the backend. This assignment of preq.dev with the 'handle' value is superfluous so lets not do it. Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c @@ -879,7 +879,6 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct x goto fail_response; } - preq.dev = req->u.rw.handle; preq.sector_number = req->u.rw.sector_number; preq.nr_sects = 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html