On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 14:14 -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

John, I'll will send a respin after I dissect what Tomas mentioned. I
have one other patch added to my series also that Rajkumar Manoharan
[off-list ref] sent to me that I will be rolling into my
series. If we are pressed my recommendation is to revert Johannes'
patch for now, but if you do, please let me know so I can amend my
patches to address that bit.

I really don't want to revert that since it fixes a NULL pointer
dereference that you can probably trigger fairly easily from userspace
with not much more than well-timed unplug and lots of disk activity.

Why can't you just work on the fix first and then do all those
improvement patches?

johannes