Re: [PATCH 5.15] block: Add a helper to validate the block size

From: Damien Le Moal
Date: Thu Nov 18 2021 - 21:53:31 EST


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.


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research