This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: sg: remove 'save_scat_len'
to the 4.9-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:
scsi-sg-remove-save_scat_len.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 136e57bf43dc4babbfb8783abbf707d483cacbe3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 09:34:13 +0200
Subject: scsi: sg: remove 'save_scat_len'
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
commit 136e57bf43dc4babbfb8783abbf707d483cacbe3 upstream.
Unused.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/sg.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@ typedef struct sg_fd { /* holds the sta
int timeout; /* defaults to SG_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT */
int timeout_user; /* defaults to SG_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_USER */
Sg_scatter_hold reserve; /* buffer held for this file descriptor */
- unsigned save_scat_len; /* original length of trunc. scat. element */
Sg_request *headrp; /* head of request slist, NULL->empty */
struct fasync_struct *async_qp; /* used by asynchronous notification */
Sg_request req_arr[SG_MAX_QUEUE]; /* used as singly-linked list */
@@ -2049,7 +2048,6 @@ sg_unlink_reserve(Sg_fd * sfp, Sg_reques
req_schp->pages = NULL;
req_schp->page_order = 0;
req_schp->sglist_len = 0;
- sfp->save_scat_len = 0;
srp->res_used = 0;
/* Called without mutex lock to avoid deadlock */
sfp->res_in_use = 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hare@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/scsi-sg-use-standard-lists-for-sg_requests.patch
queue-4.9/scsi-sg-factor-out-sg_fill_request_table.patch
queue-4.9/skd-submit-requests-to-firmware-before-triggering-the-doorbell.patch
queue-4.9/scsi-sg-remove-save_scat_len.patch
queue-4.9/block-relax-a-check-in-blk_start_queue.patch
queue-4.9/skd-avoid-that-module-unloading-triggers-a-use-after-free.patch