Hi Ben, On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 10:33 +0200, Jinpu Wang wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Ben Hutchings >> <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 10:38 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> >> 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> >> >> ------------------ >> >> >> >> From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> >> >> >> >> commit f5fe1b51905df7cfe4fdfd85c5fb7bc5b71a094f upstream. > [...] >> > Why did you drop the changes in drivers/md/dm.c? > [...] >> Because the code snip doesn't exist in 4.4. > > It does, and the upstream patch applies to it without any changes! I'm > objecting to this and the preceding patch until there's a proper > explanation of why device-mapper should be excluded from the backport. > > I've attached an alternate version of this patch that has the > device-mapper part restored. While I haven't tested this (don't know > what the test case would be) I think it is rather more likely to be a > correct backport to 4.4. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > Software Developer, Codethink Ltd. > Thanks, you're right, just found commit cd8ad4d9eb6d9ee04e77b42c6a7a15eabada85ac was included in 4.4.55+, We should use your backport! -- Jack Wang Linux Kernel Developer