Patch "null_blk: add lightnvm null_blk device to the nullb_list" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
null_blk: add lightnvm null_blk device to the nullb_list
to the 4.5-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:
null_blk-add-lightnvm-null_blk-device-to-the-nullb_list.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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3681c85dffda70e551dead31c8d102bd69033fe8Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wenwei Tao <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 00:27:04 +0800
Subject: null_blk: add lightnvm null_blk device to the nullb_list
From: Wenwei Tao <[email protected]>
commit 3681c85dffda70e551dead31c8d102bd69033fe8 upstream.
After register null_blk devices into lightnvm, we forget to add these devices to the the nullb_list, makes them invisible to the null_blk driver.
--- drivers/block/null_blk.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/block/null_blk.c +2 -1
@@ -742,10 +742,11 @@ static int null_add_dev(void)add_disk (disk); +done:mutex_lock (&lock);list_add_tail (&nullb->list, &nullb_list);mutex_unlock (&lock); -done: +return 0 ; out_cleanup_lightnvm:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.5/null_blk-add-lightnvm-null_blk-device-to-the-nullb_list.patch