[PATCH stable/5.4..5.8] nvme-mpath: replace direct_make_request with generic_make_request

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 04:18:30PM -0700, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
> > > > > Hence, we need to fix all the kernels that were before submit_bio_noacct was
> > > > > introduced.
> > > > 
> > > > Why can we not just add submit_bio_noacct to the 5.4 kernel to correct
> > > > this?  What commit id is that?
> > > 
> > > Hey Greg,
> > > 
> > > submit_bio_noacct was applied as part of a rework by Christoph that I
> > > didn't feel was suitable as a stable candidate. The commit-id is:
> > > ed00aabd5eb9fb44d6aff1173234a2e911b9fead
> > 
> > submit_bio_noacct really is just a new name for generic_make_request,
> > as the old one was horribly misleading.  So this does use
> > submit_bio_noacct, just with its old name.
> 
> commit ed00aabd5eb9fb44d6aff1173234a2e911b9fead does not apply
> cleanly on any of these kernels, so I think it's better to take this
> small one-liner instead of trying to fit a commit that changes the
> name treewide.
> 
> Greg, what is your preference? backporting
> ed00aabd5eb9fb44d6aff1173234a2e911b9fead to the various kernels
> or to take this isolated one?

I took just this change now, thanks.

greg k-h