[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm: fix multipath regression due to initializing wrong request

[Jens Axboe]

On 02/09/2015 10:35 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09 2015 at 12:13P -0500,
> Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 09 2015 at 12:07pm -0500,
>> Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, we're not going rebase the series with the correction? I'm concerned
>>> someone biscecting a completely unrelated problem might step on this
>>> commit. Up to you guys. It's my fault, so I'll deal with the consequences.
>>
>> Rebasing this late (3.20 merge already opened) is generally not done.
>> Unfortunately we'll just have to suck it up and deal with the fallout
>> during bisect -- would wager very few are bisecting with multipath as
>> the focus of their test.
>
> Jens and I discussed this further and given that linux-block breaks
> dm-multipath it is best to fix linux-block and let Linus resolve the
> merge when I send him the linux-dm pull.
>
> Here is the patch to fix the regression:

Added, thanks. I don't think this is worth rebasing for, so just added 
to the top of for-3.20/core (since that's where the buggy commit was added).

-- 
Jens Axboe