Patch "block: provide compat ioctl for BLKZEROOUT" has been added to the 3.15-stable tree

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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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