This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device to the 3.12-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: block-properly-stack-underlying-max_segment_size-to-dm-device.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d82ae52e68892338068e7559a0c0657193341ce4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:44:49 -0600 Subject: block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d82ae52e68892338068e7559a0c0657193341ce4 upstream. Without this patch all DM devices will default to BLK_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE (65536) even if the underlying device(s) have a larger value -- this is due to blk_stack_limits() using min_not_zero() when stacking the max_segment_size limit. 1073741824 before patch: 65536 after patch: 1073741824 Reported-by: Lukasz Flis <l.flis@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-settings.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/block/blk-settings.c +++ b/block/blk-settings.c @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ void blk_set_stacking_limits(struct queu lim->discard_zeroes_data = 1; lim->max_segments = USHRT_MAX; lim->max_hw_sectors = UINT_MAX; + lim->max_segment_size = UINT_MAX; lim->max_sectors = UINT_MAX; lim->max_write_same_sectors = UINT_MAX; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.12/block-properly-stack-underlying-max_segment_size-to-dm-device.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html