Re: Patch "block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 12:48:27PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2014-10-03 12:47, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> >     block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime
> >
> >to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.kernel.org/git/?p%3Dlinux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba%3Dsummary&k=ZVNjlDMF0FElm4dQtryO4A%3D%3D%0A&r=3JMVyziIyZtZ5cv9eWNLwQ%3D%3D%0A&m=7fqnhbjDrlkEggjbNY9213SRPvugda%2FfFV96gieRrfU%3D%0A&s=926c50e9c9bd598c200e947f48b25a0de3c7665d7d4f403a5a782d520e2accd6
> >
> >The filename of the patch is:
> >      block-fix-dev_t-minor-allocation-lifetime.patch
> >and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
> >
> >If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> >please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> 
> Needs this one on top as well:
> 
> commit 46f341ffcfb5d8530f7d1e60f3be06cce6661b62
> Author: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Sep 16 13:38:51 2014 -0600
> 
>     genhd: fix leftover might_sleep() in blk_free_devt()
> 
>     Commit 2da78092 changed the locking from a mutex to a spinlock,
>     so we now longer sleep in this context. But there was a leftover
>     might_sleep() in there, which now triggers since we do the final
>     free from an RCU callback. Get rid of it.
> 
>     Reported-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@xxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>

Thanks for letting me know, now added as well.

greg k-h
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