Re: [stable] [PATCH 000 of 2] md: Fixes for md in 2.6.23

[Greg KH]

 On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 08:36:05PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007 5:23 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:22:14PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:15:27PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It appears that a couple of bugs slipped in to md for 2.6.23.
> > > > These two patches fix them and are appropriate for 2.6.23.y as well
> > > > as 2.6.24-rcX
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > NeilBrown
> > > >
> > > >  [PATCH 001 of 2] md: Fix an unsigned compare to allow creation of bitmaps with v1.0 metadata.
> > > >  [PATCH 002 of 2] md: raid5: fix clearing of biofill operations
> > >
> > > I don't see these patches in 2.6.24-rcX, are they there under some other
> > > subject?
> >
> > Oh nevermind, I found them, sorry for the noise...
> >
> 
> Careful, it looks like you cherry picked commit 4ae3f847 "md: raid5:
> fix clearing of biofill operations" which ended up misapplied in
> Linus' tree,  You should either also pick up def6ae26 "md: fix
> misapplied patch in raid5.c" or I can resend the original "raid5: fix
> clearing of biofill operations."
> 
> The other patch for -stable "raid5: fix unending write sequence" is
> currently in -mm.

Hm, I've attached the two patches that I have right now in the -stable
tree so far (still have over 100 patches to go, so I might not have
gotten to them yet if you have sent them).  These were sent to me by
Andrew on their way to Linus.  if I should drop either one, or add
another one, please let me know.

thanks,

greg k-h