This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled block: Initialize max_dev_sectors to 0 to the 4.4-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: block-initialize-max_dev_sectors-to-0.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5f009d3f8e6685fe8c6215082c1696a08b411220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:52:47 -0700 Subject: block: Initialize max_dev_sectors to 0 From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx> commit 5f009d3f8e6685fe8c6215082c1696a08b411220 upstream. The new queue limit is not used by the majority of block drivers, and should be initialized to 0 for the driver's requested settings to be used. Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-settings.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/block/blk-settings.c +++ b/block/blk-settings.c @@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ void blk_set_default_limits(struct queue lim->seg_boundary_mask = BLK_SEG_BOUNDARY_MASK; lim->virt_boundary_mask = 0; lim->max_segment_size = BLK_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE; - lim->max_sectors = lim->max_dev_sectors = lim->max_hw_sectors = - BLK_SAFE_MAX_SECTORS; + lim->max_sectors = lim->max_hw_sectors = BLK_SAFE_MAX_SECTORS; + lim->max_dev_sectors = 0; lim->chunk_sectors = 0; lim->max_write_same_sectors = 0; lim->max_discard_sectors = 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/block-initialize-max_dev_sectors-to-0.patch -- 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