[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "scsi: Fix a bdi reregistration race" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Nov 30 22:44:51 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 14:14 -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 11/30/2015 02:10 PM, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> >
> >      scsi: Fix a bdi reregistration race
> >
> > to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree
> > which can be found at:
> >
> >      http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue
> >
> > This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt11.
> >
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
> > reply to this email.
> 
> Hello Kamal,
> 
> This patch fixes a race but introduces a new bug. So it's probably
> better to drop this patch. More information is available in the e-mail 
> thread that is available at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/107519.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.
> 

Got it -- dropping this patch from 3.19-stable.  Thanks very much for
the heads-up, Bart.

 -Kamal






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