Re: Bcache fixes for stable

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Mon Aug 26 2013 - 19:23:52 EST


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 03:19:57PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 03:02:49PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > Two fixes that went into 3.11 should've been marked for stable, but I
> > screwed up and forgot to mark them.
> >
> > One of them fixes bugs that appear to being hit in the wild, so please
> > pull these:
> >
> > The following changes since commit 0a4b6d4ff200a553951f77f765971cb3e4c91ec0:
> >
> > Linux 3.10.9 (2013-08-20 15:40:47 -0700)
> >
> > are available in the git repository at:
> >
> > git://evilpiepirate.org/~kent/linux-bcache.git bcache-for-3.10
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to a213846fafcdf52153dfebf8b1671498a72b6285:
> >
> > bcache: FUA fixes (2013-08-26 14:56:52 -0700)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Kent Overstreet (1):
> > bcache: FUA fixes
> >
> > Kumar Amit Mehta (1):
> > md: bcache: io.c: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
>
> Can I get a hint as to what the git commit ids of these patches are in
> Linus's tree?

5c694129c8db6d89c9be109049a16510b2f70f6d
e49c7c374e7aacd1f04ecbc21d9dbbeeea4a77d6

> Ideally, that's all you need to send me, but if you want to send me a
> git pull, that's fine too, but please use a signed tag, otherwise it's
> just a random tree...

*nod* I need to get some more signatures on my gpg key...

> Also, if you do a git pull, I need the git commit ids in the changelog
> entry that match Linus's tree, so people (like me) can verify things.

Ok, I'll remember that for the future.

> For now, I can edit these two patches and add them in, if you give me
> the git commit ids to verify them.

Ok - I don't care too much either way but there were some slightly
nontrivial conflicts on the second patch, and the one I did backported
has been tested.
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