On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 03:47:40PM -0800, Michael Lyle wrote:
> Hi---
>
> Previously sent to stable was this patch, and it's made it into
> Linus's tree for 4.16. It's a rather urgent data corruption issue
> that affects at minimum bcache but possibly other block subsystems.
> Several users have lost data. The issue was introduced in the 4.15
> branch by 74d46992e0d9 ("block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer
> and partitions index").
>
> I'd really appreciate anything that can be done to get this into a
> stable 4.15 release soon.
Now queued up, thanks for letting me know. Normally I wait until a
patch hits a public -rc release before adding it to a stable kernel
release, but if you ever want it ot get there sooner, always feel free
to just email stable@vger with this info and I will try to queue it up
sooner.
thanks,
greg k-h