This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: sg: remove 'save_scat_len' to the 4.4-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: scsi-sg-remove-save_scat_len.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 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 @@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ 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 */ @@ -2059,7 +2058,6 @@ 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-4.4/scsi-sg-use-standard-lists-for-sg_requests.patch queue-4.4/scsi-sg-factor-out-sg_fill_request_table.patch queue-4.4/skd-submit-requests-to-firmware-before-triggering-the-doorbell.patch queue-4.4/scsi-sg-remove-save_scat_len.patch queue-4.4/block-relax-a-check-in-blk_start_queue.patch queue-4.4/skd-avoid-that-module-unloading-triggers-a-use-after-free.patch