From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752073AbdGCWtq (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2017 18:49:46 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f176.google.com ([209.85.192.176]:35827 "EHLO mail-pf0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750803AbdGCWtn (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2017 18:49:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] block, bfq: fix bug causing crashes To: Paolo Valente Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ulf.hansson@linaro.org, broonie@kernel.org References: <20170703080010.1709-1-paolo.valente@linaro.org> From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 16:49:40 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170703080010.1709-1-paolo.valente@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/03/2017 02:00 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > Hi Jens, > I'm writing this short cover letter to hopefully help you decide what > to do with this patch, in this late phase of the development > cycle. This patch fixes a bug causing kernel crashes for at least > one year. Crashes apparently affect only a minority of users, but are > systematic for them (a crash every few tens of minutes for some). By the time you wrote that email, 4.12 was already released for hours. So there's really no choice this time but to queue it up for 4.13. -- Jens Axboe