On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 16:22 +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Hello Vasu, > > Every now and then I receive an e-mail from an FCoE user who runs an > older kernel reporting an issue that was fixed by the patches that were > accepted upstream in kernel 3.13 (see also > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi.open-fcoe.devel/12132).
Hi Bart, The link is to your patches series applied earlier this year and not about any reported issues with older kernels. I don't know why one would report issues to you and not to open-fcoe.org with older stable kernels. Am I missing such reports and how can we have them on open-fcoe also ? However that doesn't mean one would not run into any issue fixed upstream while using older stable kernel w/o that fix, so critical fixes should be CCed for stable kernel proactively but up to which older kernels version ? I don't recall any specific policy for that on either open-fcoe or linus-scsi, if any such linux-scsi policy then we could consider that as well. Do you know what is the policy on linux-scsi ? > This > made me wonder what the policy is for sending patches to the stable tree > ? The list of patches I would like to see being sent to the stable tree > is as follows (tested on top of kernel v3.10.62): Looks fine to apply these patches to older 3.10 if someone really wants to use that specific v3.10.62 kernel. I verified all these are in latest v3.18 kernel since these patches dates back in 2013 with top and bottom patches in the list as: commit e0335f67a281cb8eb11868e614ee9390fbbe9b1d Author: Mark Rustad <[email protected]> Date: Sat May 18 04:01:36 2013 +0000 libfc: Reject PLOGI from nodes with incompatible role commit 55d0ac5d2839fe270cea02fad44eed13750a0efd Author: Neil Horman <[email protected]> Date: Tue Oct 8 23:43:58 2013 +0000 fcoe: Fix missing mutex_unlock in fcoe_sysfs_fcf_add error path You may also want to include patches from your link above and possibly some more missing for 3.10 stable, so if possibly then better for user to move to v3.18 which has all recent fcoe fixes in it. Thanks, Vasu > 648a179a5a28f2f16efc4711fb5a4c38d1ef1ceb > libfc: Reject PLOGI from nodes with incompatible role > 129a350a92fa6ea19c6ff3a60d0424ea76989060 > fcoe: Fix smatch warning in fcoe_fdmi_info function > 86a78a3157c292fc73dc2bcb11609f8ed973437a > fcoe: fix the link error status block sparse warnings > 38446b470d49567aa1b55045e65dc3bb9be40b2a > libfc: Differentiate echange timer cancellation debug statements > 14122e6901ea4b89a7a58b75e6bc2e9db17c768d > libfcoe: Fix meaningless log statement > 5a95e4d9b51622a99d881b9f415413158782a034 > fcoe: Stop fc_rport_priv structure leak > ca1e26dace27b08aab4406c7542f12956b996c6c > fcoe: Reduce number of sparse warnings > a6f50989c73f51fd0208b0f7fb38c8ef369b940e > fcoe: ensure that skb placed on the fip_recv_list are unshared > fe594938f703884e8531a985bdf8f055ff6f797c > fcoe: make sure fcoe frames are unshared prior to manipulating them > 29bce4de2b36291e52a027e7b656a8332674ef4e > fcoe: cleanup return codes from fcoe_rcv > f596d9a0cca64bcc635b21c76f7ea426b7dc48d2 > libfc: Source code comment spelling fixes > 93b31c44dee5f6a3d193e0a91fd1842a16fe8e9e > libfc: Debug code fixes > 9005094109bd4cce7e8ad90f619f4726b03a59b9 > libfc: Micro-optimize fc_setup_exch_mgr() > 2d56fbdfd947a81905e4f2551d95705a85aad08b > libfc: Clarify fc_exch_find() > e3f112a7cc51427ee9938026168c95a3cedab037 > libfc: Fix a race in fc_exch_timer_set_locked() > d174e95ed5ff812bd11b8b2d098e81b2ba266e22 > libfc: Protect ep->esb_stat changes via ex_lock > 8b1567d9603c87857eab1869a57e66ee4915716d > libfc: Avoid that sending after an abort triggers a kernel warning > c946a1c2d92ea54cddebc1ac2204e214dc63692e > libfc: Reduce exchange lock contention in fc_exch_recv_abts() > b52181d2bf17ab7eb2a0fb1f76e45d7adbad645d > libfc: Do not invoke the response handler after fc_exch_done() > 78bf612e8f2af71d4f7453d9cf35eaa67403c825 > fcp: Do not interpret check condition as underrun > 6c40010e03547930fc5465087a72080cdabf6d24 > fcoe: Declare fcoe_ctlr_mode_set() static > d72ad2b74816b9920659093ed609a6c391287f5c > fcoe: Add missing newlines in debug messages > 180db363920cdbf5d7462b1d6fb6a999071a0d4d > fcoe: Reduce fcoe_sysfs_fcf_add() stack usage > f298717281fc505949fcf6bdf5ba051fa65759b3 > libfcoe: Make fcoe_sysfs optional / fix fnic NULL exception > a08cdd23d184bd01f26ba3e3cff056bed60aa90a > fcoe: Fix missing mutex_unlock in fcoe_sysfs_fcf_add error path > > Thanks, > > Bart. > _______________________________________________ > fcoe-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open-fcoe.org/mailman/listinfo/fcoe-devel _______________________________________________ fcoe-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-fcoe.org/mailman/listinfo/fcoe-devel
