Re: SCSI fix (a621bac3)missing in stable

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On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Jinpu Wang <jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:45 PM, James Bottomley
> <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 12:23 +0200, Jinpu Wang wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 5:51 PM, James Bottomley
>>> <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 17:29 +0200, Jinpu Wang wrote:
>>> > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Jinpu Wang
>>> > > <jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Greg KH <
>>> > > > gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > > > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 06:47:40PM +0200, Jinpu Wang wrote:
>>> > > > > > Hi all,
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > We found the SCSI fix is missing in any stable only in
>>> > > > > > linux
>>> > > > > > 4.7-rc2
>>> > > > > > [PATCH] scsi_lib: correctly retry failed zero length
>>> > > > > > REQ_TYPE_FS
>>> > > > > >  commands
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > commit a621bac3044ed6f7ec5fa0326491b2d4838bfa93 upstream.
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > So we backport & tested on linux-3.12 (as we're using this
>>> > > > > > kernel).
>>> > > > > > Could you review if we did it right?
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > This "backport" includes a bunch of checks and comments that
>>> > > > > are
>>> > > > > not in
>>> > > > > the upstream kernel, so I don't really want to include it in
>>> > > > > the
>>> > > > > 3.14-stable queue unless you get the scsi maintainers to ack
>>> > > > > it.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > thanks,
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > greg k-h
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Thanks Greg!
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Hi James, hi Martin
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Could you give your Ack on the patch?
>>> > > >
>>> > > > --
>>> > >
>>> > > Ping?
>>> >
>>> > How can I review this?  What you're proposing certainly isn't a
>>> > backport.  What you're actually trying to do is to port around this
>>> > commit:
>>> >
>>> > ommit bc85dc500f9df9b2eec15077e5046672c46adeaa
>>> > Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>>> > Date:   Thu May 1 16:51:03 2014 +0200
>>> >
>>> >     scsi: remove scsi_end_request
>>> >
>>> > Have you tried simply backporting that to your tree and then
>>> > applying
>>> > to work around?
>>> >
>>> > James
>>> >
>>>
>>> Thanks James for suggestions.
>>> I did backport bc85dc500, and backport a621bac3, it passed my local
>>> tests.
>>>
>>> Could you review patches attached?
>>
>> I'm afraid 3.12 is way too old for me to remember the current state of
>> play.  However, if those two patches backport unmodified and you've
>> tested it, then you're good to go.
>>
>> James
>>
>>
> Thanks James!
>
> Hi Greg,
> Could pick up this 2 patches for 3.14? I tried locally, it can be
> applied cleanly on top of 3.14.72
>
> And Jiri,
> For 3.12, it can be applied cleanly on top of 3.12.61?

Hi Greg & Jiri,

A soft ping?

Cheers
Jack
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