Re: [GIT PULL] (xen) for-jens-4.3 for your 'for-4.3/drivers' branch

[Jens Axboe]

On 10/07/2015 02:32 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 01:53:01PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On 10/07/2015 01:26 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > Hey Jens,
> > >
> > > Please git pull an update branch to your 'for-4.3/drivers' branch (which
> > > oddly I don't see does not have the previous pull?)
> > >
> > >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/for-jens-4.3
> > >
> > > which has two fixes - one where we use the Xen blockfront EFI driver and
> > > don't release all the requests, the other if the allocation of resources
> > > for a particular state failed - we would go back 'Closing' and assume that
> > > an structure would be allocated while in fact it may not be - and crash.
> > >
> > > Please pull!
> > >
> > > P.S.
> > > The patches also have 'stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' on them.
> > >
> > >   drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> > >   drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c       |  3 ++-
> > >   2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > Cathy Avery (1):
> > >        xen-blkfront: check for null drvdata in blkback_changed (XenbusStateClosing)
> > >
> > > Roger Pau Monne (1):
> > >        xen/blkback: free requests on disconnection
> >
> > There's only one commit in that pull request, the patch from Roger is
> > already in mainline from the last pull request. I think your mistake is
>
> Hm, indeed I see it now (after doing git pull from non-work machine).
>
> > looking at for-4.3/drivers - this branch is defunct as soon as Linus has
> > pulled the initial bits for 4.3. After that, for-linus is the branch that
> > carries fixes for the _current_ branch.
>
> Aaaa! That I had no clue about. OK, I will fix my workflow. Do you want
> me to repost this basing it on the 'for-linus' branch?

No the current one is fine, it's only a concern if there are other 
changes in your branch compared to mine. I just got a different diffstat 
for this one than you listed, so I had to check it more thoroughly.

I have pulled it in.

--
Jens Axboe

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