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Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.1 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15] block: Add a helper to validate the block size Content-Language: en-US To: Tadeusz Struk , stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, hch@lst.de, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzbot+662448179365dddc1880@syzkaller.appspotmail.com, xieyongji@bytedance.com References: <7e6c4c23-f071-f33b-7bd4-da11980d34c6@linaro.org> <20211118235738.1128085-1-tadeusz.struk@linaro.org> From: Damien Le Moal Organization: Western Digital In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2021/11/19 11:41, Tadeusz Struk wrote: > On 11/18/21 17:55, Damien Le Moal wrote: >> But where is this used in 5.15 ? I do not see any callers for this. >> So why backport it ? > It will be used after the > af3c570fb0df ("loop: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size") > is applied. > Please read the first message in the thread to get the context. None of the patches in that series are marked for stable. If you want all of them backported, sending all patches together as a series would make things easier to understand. -- Damien Le Moal Western Digital Research