This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

libata: apply MAX_SEC_1024 to all LITEON EP1 series devices

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: libata-apply-max_sec_1024-to-all-liteon-ep1-series-devices.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From db5ff909798ef0099004ad50a0ff5fde92426fd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Xinyu Lin xinyu0123@gmail.com Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 20:13:39 +0800 Subject: libata: apply MAX_SEC_1024 to all LITEON EP1 series devices

From: Xinyu Lin xinyu0123@gmail.com

commit db5ff909798ef0099004ad50a0ff5fde92426fd1 upstream.

LITEON EP1 has the same timeout issues as CX1 series devices.

Revert max_sectors to the value of 1024.

Fixes: e0edc8c54646 ("libata: apply MAX_SEC_1024 to all CX1-JB*-HP devices") Signed-off-by: Xinyu Lin xinyu0123@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -4439,6 +4439,7 @@ static const struct ata_blacklist_entry * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121671 */ { "LITEON CX1-JB*-HP", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_1024 }, + { "LITEON EP1-*", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_1024 },

/* Devices we expect to fail diagnostics */

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xinyu0123@gmail.com are

queue-4.14/libata-apply-max_sec_1024-to-all-liteon-ep1-series-devices.patch