Patch "block: fix segment split" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

block: fix segment split

to the 4.3-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-fix-segment-split.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:35:29 +0800
Subject: block: fix segment split

From: Ming Lei <[email protected]>

commit 578270bfbd2803dc7b0b03fbc2ac119efbc73195 upstream.

Inside blk_bio_segment_split(), previous bvec pointer(bvprvp) always points to the iterator local variable, which is obviously wrong, so fix it by pointing to the local variable of 'bvprv'.

---
 block/blk-merge.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static struct bio *blk_bio_segment_split
 
 			seg_size += bv.bv_len;
 			bvprv = bv;
-			bvprvp = &bv;
+			bvprvp = &bvprv;
 			sectors += bv.bv_len >> 9;
 			continue;
 		}

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ new_segment:
 
 		nsegs++;
 		bvprv = bv;
-		bvprvp = &bv;
+		bvprvp = &bvprv;
 		seg_size = bv.bv_len;
 		sectors += bv.bv_len >> 9;
 	}

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.3/block-fix-segment-split.patch