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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/scsi/device_handler, branch v4.11.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Warn if the first argument of alua_rtpg_queue() is NULL</title>
<updated>2017-03-19T17:16:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@sandisk.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-18T00:02:03+00:00</published>
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Callers must provide a valid port group to alua_rtpg_queue().  Issue a
kernel warning if that is not the case.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Tang Junhui &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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Callers must provide a valid port group to alua_rtpg_queue().  Issue a
kernel warning if that is not the case.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Tang Junhui &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Ensure that alua_activate() calls the completion function</title>
<updated>2017-03-19T17:16:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@sandisk.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-18T00:02:02+00:00</published>
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Callers of scsi_dh_activate(), e.g. dm-mpath, assume that this function
either returns an error code or calls the completion function. Make
alua_activate() call the completion function even if scsi_device_get()
fails.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Tang Junhui &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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Callers of scsi_dh_activate(), e.g. dm-mpath, assume that this function
either returns an error code or calls the completion function. Make
alua_activate() call the completion function even if scsi_device_get()
fails.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Tang Junhui &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Check scsi_device_get() return value</title>
<updated>2017-03-19T17:15:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@sandisk.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-18T00:02:01+00:00</published>
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Do not queue ALUA work nor call scsi_device_put() if the
scsi_device_get() call fails. This patch fixes the following crash:

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
RIP: 0010:scsi_device_put+0xb/0x30
Call Trace:
 scsi_disk_put+0x2d/0x40
 sd_release+0x3d/0xb0
 __blkdev_put+0x29e/0x360
 blkdev_put+0x49/0x170
 dm_put_table_device+0x58/0xc0 [dm_mod]
 dm_put_device+0x70/0xc0 [dm_mod]
 free_priority_group+0x92/0xc0 [dm_multipath]
 free_multipath+0x70/0xc0 [dm_multipath]
 multipath_dtr+0x19/0x20 [dm_multipath]
 dm_table_destroy+0x67/0x120 [dm_mod]
 dev_suspend+0xde/0x240 [dm_mod]
 ctl_ioctl+0x1f5/0x520 [dm_mod]
 dm_ctl_ioctl+0xe/0x20 [dm_mod]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0x8f/0x700
 SyS_ioctl+0x3c/0x70
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad

Fixes: commit 03197b61c5ec ("scsi_dh_alua: Use workqueue for RTPG")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Tang Junhui &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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Do not queue ALUA work nor call scsi_device_put() if the
scsi_device_get() call fails. This patch fixes the following crash:

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
RIP: 0010:scsi_device_put+0xb/0x30
Call Trace:
 scsi_disk_put+0x2d/0x40
 sd_release+0x3d/0xb0
 __blkdev_put+0x29e/0x360
 blkdev_put+0x49/0x170
 dm_put_table_device+0x58/0xc0 [dm_mod]
 dm_put_device+0x70/0xc0 [dm_mod]
 free_priority_group+0x92/0xc0 [dm_multipath]
 free_multipath+0x70/0xc0 [dm_multipath]
 multipath_dtr+0x19/0x20 [dm_multipath]
 dm_table_destroy+0x67/0x120 [dm_mod]
 dev_suspend+0xde/0x240 [dm_mod]
 ctl_ioctl+0x1f5/0x520 [dm_mod]
 dm_ctl_ioctl+0xe/0x20 [dm_mod]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0x8f/0x700
 SyS_ioctl+0x3c/0x70
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad

Fixes: commit 03197b61c5ec ("scsi_dh_alua: Use workqueue for RTPG")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Tang Junhui &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: remove scsi_execute_req_flags</title>
<updated>2017-02-23T21:57:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-23T15:02:37+00:00</published>
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And switch all callers to use scsi_execute instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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And switch all callers to use scsi_execute instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: scsi_dh_emc: return success in clariion_std_inquiry()</title>
<updated>2017-02-23T00:28:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-21T18:46:37+00:00</published>
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We accidentally return an uninitialized variable on success.

Fixes: b6ff1b14cdf4 ("[SCSI] scsi_dh: Update EMC handler")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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We accidentally return an uninitialized variable on success.

Fixes: b6ff1b14cdf4 ("[SCSI] scsi_dh: Update EMC handler")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi_dh_hp_sw: switch to scsi_execute_req_flags()</title>
<updated>2017-01-27T22:08:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Reinecke</name>
<email>hare@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-03T13:20:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=80e1836cf94e0c9a410c1e31302b1d61bf5b7363'/>
<id>80e1836cf94e0c9a410c1e31302b1d61bf5b7363</id>
<content type='text'>
Switch to scsi_execute_req_flags() instead of using the block interface
directly.  This will set REQ_QUIET and REQ_PREEMPT, but this is okay as
we're evaluating the errors anyway and should be able to send the command
even if the device is quiesced.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Switch to scsi_execute_req_flags() instead of using the block interface
directly.  This will set REQ_QUIET and REQ_PREEMPT, but this is okay as
we're evaluating the errors anyway and should be able to send the command
even if the device is quiesced.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi_dh_emc: switch to scsi_execute_req_flags()</title>
<updated>2017-01-27T22:08:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Reinecke</name>
<email>hare@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-03T13:20:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b78205c93297b821974deaf607bc2efd89842621'/>
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<content type='text'>
Switch to scsi_execute_req_flags() and scsi_get_vpd_page() instead of
open-coding it.  Using scsi_execute_req_flags() will set REQ_QUIET and
REQ_PREEMPT, but this is okay as we're evaluating the errors anyway and
should be able to send the command even if the device is quiesced.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<pre>
Switch to scsi_execute_req_flags() and scsi_get_vpd_page() instead of
open-coding it.  Using scsi_execute_req_flags() will set REQ_QUIET and
REQ_PREEMPT, but this is okay as we're evaluating the errors anyway and
should be able to send the command even if the device is quiesced.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi_dh_rdac: switch to scsi_execute_req_flags()</title>
<updated>2017-01-27T22:08:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Reinecke</name>
<email>hare@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-03T13:20:21+00:00</published>
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<id>3278255741326b6d66d8ca7d1cb2c57633ee43d9</id>
<content type='text'>
Switch to scsi_execute_req_flags() and scsi_get_vpd_page() instead of
open-coding it.  Using scsi_execute_req_flags() will set REQ_QUIET and
REQ_PREEMPT, but this is okay as we're evaluating the errors anyway and
should be able to send the command even if the device is quiesced.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<pre>
Switch to scsi_execute_req_flags() and scsi_get_vpd_page() instead of
open-coding it.  Using scsi_execute_req_flags() will set REQ_QUIET and
REQ_PREEMPT, but this is okay as we're evaluating the errors anyway and
should be able to send the command even if the device is quiesced.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2016-12-14T18:49:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-14T18:49:33+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This update includes the usual round of major driver updates (ncr5380,
  lpfc, hisi_sas, megaraid_sas, ufs, ibmvscsis, mpt3sas).

  There's also an assortment of minor fixes, mostly in error legs or
  other not very user visible stuff. The major change is the
  pci_alloc_irq_vectors replacement for the old pci_msix_.. calls; this
  effectively makes IRQ mapping generic for the drivers and allows
  blk_mq to use the information"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (256 commits)
  scsi: qla4xxx: switch to pci_alloc_irq_vectors
  scsi: hisi_sas: support deferred probe for v2 hw
  scsi: megaraid_sas: switch to pci_alloc_irq_vectors
  scsi: scsi_devinfo: remove synchronous ALUA for NETAPP devices
  scsi: be2iscsi: set errno on error path
  scsi: be2iscsi: set errno on error path
  scsi: hpsa: fallback to use legacy REPORT PHYS command
  scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix RCU annotations
  scsi: hpsa: use %phN for short hex dumps
  scsi: hisi_sas: fix free'ing in probe and remove
  scsi: isci: switch to pci_alloc_irq_vectors
  scsi: ipr: Fix runaway IRQs when falling back from MSI to LSI
  scsi: dpt_i2o: double free on error path
  scsi: cxlflash: Migrate scsi command pointer to AFU command
  scsi: cxlflash: Migrate IOARRIN specific routines to function pointers
  scsi: cxlflash: Cleanup queuecommand()
  scsi: cxlflash: Cleanup send_tmf()
  scsi: cxlflash: Remove AFU command lock
  scsi: cxlflash: Wait for active AFU commands to timeout upon tear down
  scsi: cxlflash: Remove private command pool
  ...
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<pre>
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This update includes the usual round of major driver updates (ncr5380,
  lpfc, hisi_sas, megaraid_sas, ufs, ibmvscsis, mpt3sas).

  There's also an assortment of minor fixes, mostly in error legs or
  other not very user visible stuff. The major change is the
  pci_alloc_irq_vectors replacement for the old pci_msix_.. calls; this
  effectively makes IRQ mapping generic for the drivers and allows
  blk_mq to use the information"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (256 commits)
  scsi: qla4xxx: switch to pci_alloc_irq_vectors
  scsi: hisi_sas: support deferred probe for v2 hw
  scsi: megaraid_sas: switch to pci_alloc_irq_vectors
  scsi: scsi_devinfo: remove synchronous ALUA for NETAPP devices
  scsi: be2iscsi: set errno on error path
  scsi: be2iscsi: set errno on error path
  scsi: hpsa: fallback to use legacy REPORT PHYS command
  scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix RCU annotations
  scsi: hpsa: use %phN for short hex dumps
  scsi: hisi_sas: fix free'ing in probe and remove
  scsi: isci: switch to pci_alloc_irq_vectors
  scsi: ipr: Fix runaway IRQs when falling back from MSI to LSI
  scsi: dpt_i2o: double free on error path
  scsi: cxlflash: Migrate scsi command pointer to AFU command
  scsi: cxlflash: Migrate IOARRIN specific routines to function pointers
  scsi: cxlflash: Cleanup queuecommand()
  scsi: cxlflash: Cleanup send_tmf()
  scsi: cxlflash: Remove AFU command lock
  scsi: cxlflash: Wait for active AFU commands to timeout upon tear down
  scsi: cxlflash: Remove private command pool
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T18:19:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-13T18:19:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=36869cb93d36269f34800b3384ba7991060a69cf'/>
<id>36869cb93d36269f34800b3384ba7991060a69cf</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main block pull request this series. Contrary to previous
  release, I've kept the core and driver changes in the same branch. We
  always ended up having dependencies between the two for obvious
  reasons, so makes more sense to keep them together. That said, I'll
  probably try and keep more topical branches going forward, especially
  for cycles that end up being as busy as this one.

  The major parts of this pull request is:

   - Improved support for O_DIRECT on block devices, with a small
     private implementation instead of using the pig that is
     fs/direct-io.c. From Christoph.

   - Request completion tracking in a scalable fashion. This is utilized
     by two components in this pull, the new hybrid polling and the
     writeback queue throttling code.

   - Improved support for polling with O_DIRECT, adding a hybrid mode
     that combines pure polling with an initial sleep. From me.

   - Support for automatic throttling of writeback queues on the block
     side. This uses feedback from the device completion latencies to
     scale the queue on the block side up or down. From me.

   - Support from SMR drives in the block layer and for SD. From Hannes
     and Shaun.

   - Multi-connection support for nbd. From Josef.

   - Cleanup of request and bio flags, so we have a clear split between
     which are bio (or rq) private, and which ones are shared. From
     Christoph.

   - A set of patches from Bart, that improve how we handle queue
     stopping and starting in blk-mq.

   - Support for WRITE_ZEROES from Chaitanya.

   - Lightnvm updates from Javier/Matias.

   - Supoort for FC for the nvme-over-fabrics code. From James Smart.

   - A bunch of fixes from a whole slew of people, too many to name
     here"

* 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (182 commits)
  blk-stat: fix a few cases of missing batch flushing
  blk-flush: run the queue when inserting blk-mq flush
  elevator: make the rqhash helpers exported
  blk-mq: abstract out blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() helper
  blk-mq: add blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queue()
  block: improve handling of the magic discard payload
  blk-wbt: don't throttle discard or write zeroes
  nbd: use dev_err_ratelimited in io path
  nbd: reset the setup task for NBD_CLEAR_SOCK
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC-NVME
  nvme-fabrics: Add target support for FC transport
  nvme-fabrics: Add host support for FC transport
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport LLDD api definitions
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport FC-NVME definitions
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport error codes to nvme.h
  Add type 0x28 NVME type code to scsi fc headers
  nvme-fabrics: patch target code in prep for FC transport support
  nvme-fabrics: set sqe.command_id in core not transports
  parser: add u64 number parser
  nvme-rdma: align to generic ib_event logging helper
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main block pull request this series. Contrary to previous
  release, I've kept the core and driver changes in the same branch. We
  always ended up having dependencies between the two for obvious
  reasons, so makes more sense to keep them together. That said, I'll
  probably try and keep more topical branches going forward, especially
  for cycles that end up being as busy as this one.

  The major parts of this pull request is:

   - Improved support for O_DIRECT on block devices, with a small
     private implementation instead of using the pig that is
     fs/direct-io.c. From Christoph.

   - Request completion tracking in a scalable fashion. This is utilized
     by two components in this pull, the new hybrid polling and the
     writeback queue throttling code.

   - Improved support for polling with O_DIRECT, adding a hybrid mode
     that combines pure polling with an initial sleep. From me.

   - Support for automatic throttling of writeback queues on the block
     side. This uses feedback from the device completion latencies to
     scale the queue on the block side up or down. From me.

   - Support from SMR drives in the block layer and for SD. From Hannes
     and Shaun.

   - Multi-connection support for nbd. From Josef.

   - Cleanup of request and bio flags, so we have a clear split between
     which are bio (or rq) private, and which ones are shared. From
     Christoph.

   - A set of patches from Bart, that improve how we handle queue
     stopping and starting in blk-mq.

   - Support for WRITE_ZEROES from Chaitanya.

   - Lightnvm updates from Javier/Matias.

   - Supoort for FC for the nvme-over-fabrics code. From James Smart.

   - A bunch of fixes from a whole slew of people, too many to name
     here"

* 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (182 commits)
  blk-stat: fix a few cases of missing batch flushing
  blk-flush: run the queue when inserting blk-mq flush
  elevator: make the rqhash helpers exported
  blk-mq: abstract out blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() helper
  blk-mq: add blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queue()
  block: improve handling of the magic discard payload
  blk-wbt: don't throttle discard or write zeroes
  nbd: use dev_err_ratelimited in io path
  nbd: reset the setup task for NBD_CLEAR_SOCK
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC-NVME
  nvme-fabrics: Add target support for FC transport
  nvme-fabrics: Add host support for FC transport
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport LLDD api definitions
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport FC-NVME definitions
  nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport error codes to nvme.h
  Add type 0x28 NVME type code to scsi fc headers
  nvme-fabrics: patch target code in prep for FC transport support
  nvme-fabrics: set sqe.command_id in core not transports
  parser: add u64 number parser
  nvme-rdma: align to generic ib_event logging helper
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