Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-Feb-15 13:14 UTC
One more: Re: [GIT PULL] (xen) stable/for-jens-3.8
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 06:26:30PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:> Hey Jens, > > Please git pull the following branch: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/for-jens-3.8 > > which has fixes to the blkback that I hope you can push to Linus for 3.8. > The one that is quite vicious is the "xen-blkfront: drop the use of > llist_for_each_entry_safe". It is a fix to re-do an "free-ing" loop - otherwise > we hit a GCC 4.1.1 bug (so RHEL5 based) that turns the loop in an unbound one. > > Please pull! > > drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 1 - > drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++------------------- > drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 13 +++++++--- > include/linux/llist.h | 25 ------------------- > 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) > > Jan Beulich (1): > xen-blkback: do not leak mode property > > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (2): > xen/blkback: Don''t trust the handle from the frontend. > xen-blkfront: drop the use of llist_for_each_entry_safe >And on the hells of that one, I''ve got one more ! (yeah, I am sure you are thrilled about it). Same branch: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/for-jens-3.8 This time fixing a memory leak in the xen-blkback with the persistent grants feature. drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Roger Pau Monne (1): xen-blkback: use balloon pages for persistent grants Please pull! If you want to delay pushing them to Linus until 3.9 I can poke Greg about back-porting those to the stable tree - your call.