Re: request commit for 6.1 too // scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible array member for SGLs

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From	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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Subject	Re: request commit for 6.1 too // scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible array member for SGLs
Date	Sat, 10 Jun 2023 17:20:01 +0200
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On June 9, 2023 3:42:12 PM PDT, Frank Reppin <frank@undermydesk.org> wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I've already followed the reply instructions on LKML - but it somewhat
>messed up my message there (so probably nobody knows what I'm talking about) - however ...
>
>Earlier this year you've committed
>
>scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible array member for SGLs
>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git/commit/?id=a9a3629592ab
>
>... but it only made it into 6.3 at this time.
>
>I hereby kindly request to see this commit in LTS 6.1 too.

Sure! These requests are handled through the stable mailing list (now added to To:).

Greg, please backport a9a3629592ab to 6.1 (and 6.2).

Thanks!

-Kees

>
>Why?
>Debian Bookworm is soon to be released (RC4 at this moment) and is not yet aware of this issue...
>
>We're currently testing some new DELL servers and want to roll 'em out
>once Bookworm is released.
>Previous tests using Debian Bullseye (Kernel 5.10 based) where fine...
>but all of a sudden - with Debian Bookworm (Kernel 6.1 based) this weird
>call trace shows up in our logs - and this is hard to explain to QA ppl.
>
>Apart from this call trace showing up - I don't see any weird things.
>The /dev/disk/by-uuid/ thingie I wrote about in
>
>https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/6/9/1384
>
>is nonsense ofcourse - because upon further thinking about what I wrote
>it came apparent that the command I'm using does change/nullify the UUID
>I am talking about.
>
>Thankyou!
>Frank Reppin
>
>


-- 
Kees Cook

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request commit for 6.1 too // scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible array  member for SGLs Frank Reppin <frank@undermydesk.org> - 2023-06-10 01:10 +0200
  Re: request commit for 6.1 too // scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible array member for SGLs Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> - 2023-06-10 17:20 +0200
    Re: request commit for 6.1 too // scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible  array member for SGLs Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2023-06-10 17:50 +0200
      Re: request commit for 6.1 too // scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible  array member for SGLs Frank Reppin <frank@undermydesk.org> - 2023-06-14 15:20 +0200
        Re: request commit for 6.1 too // scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible  array member for SGLs Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2023-06-14 15:50 +0200
          Re: request commit for 6.1 too // scsi: megaraid_sas: Add flexible  array member for SGLs Frank Reppin <frank@undermydesk.org> - 2023-06-14 16:30 +0200

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