This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
block: provide compat ioctl for BLKZEROOUT
to the 3.15-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-provide-compat-ioctl-for-blkzeroout.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3b3a1814d1703027f9867d0f5cbbfaf6c7482474 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:46:23 -0400
Subject: block: provide compat ioctl for BLKZEROOUT
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3b3a1814d1703027f9867d0f5cbbfaf6c7482474 upstream.
This patch provides the compat BLKZEROOUT ioctl. The argument is a pointer
to two uint64_t values, so there is no need to translate it.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/compat_ioctl.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/block/compat_ioctl.c
+++ b/block/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -690,6 +690,7 @@ long compat_blkdev_ioctl(struct file *fi
case BLKROSET:
case BLKDISCARD:
case BLKSECDISCARD:
+ case BLKZEROOUT:
/*
* the ones below are implemented in blkdev_locked_ioctl,
* but we call blkdev_ioctl, which gets the lock for us
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.15/block-provide-compat-ioctl-for-blkzeroout.patch
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