Re: [PATCH 3.17 00/25] 3.17.1-stable review

[Chuck Ebbert]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 08:28:35 -0300
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.17.1
> > release. There are 25 patches in this series, all will be posted
> > as a response to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these
> > being applied, please let me know.
> 
> Actually, 3.17 is a filesystem killer for some unlucky users due to
> the libata blacklist being disabled by a bug.
> 
> Patch:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata.git/patch/?id=1c40279960bcd7d52dbdf1d466b20d24b99176c8
> 1c40279960bcd7d52dbdf1d466b20d24b99176c8 (libata: Un-break ATA
> blacklist)
> 

There are some more bugs too:


RCU stalls, fix has been in rcu/urgent for 7 days:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git/commit/?h=rcu/urgent&id=789cbbeca4eb7141cbd748ee93772471101b507b


blk-mq bio merging (still no good fix available):
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/9/729
(The fix sitting in the block tree:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git/commit/?h=for-3.18/core&id=764f612c6c3c231b9c12cfae7c328ccc9c453258
is wrong according to that message.)


Stalls when using nohz, requires series of six patches to fix that
didn't make 3.17 and weren't marked for -stable: