This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xen-blkback: fix dispatch_rw_block_io() error path to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: xen-blkback-fix-dispatch_rw_block_io-error-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0e5e098ac22dae38f957e951b70d3cf73beff0f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:39:55 +0000 Subject: xen-blkback: fix dispatch_rw_block_io() error path From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> commit 0e5e098ac22dae38f957e951b70d3cf73beff0f7 upstream. Commit 7708992 ("xen/blkback: Seperate the bio allocation and the bio submission") consolidated the pendcnt updates to just a single write, neglecting the fact that the error path relied on it getting set to 1 up front (such that the decrement in __end_block_io_op() would actually drop the count to zero, triggering the necessary cleanup actions). Also remove a misleading and a stale (after said commit) comment. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c @@ -742,13 +742,7 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct x bio->bi_end_io = end_block_io_op; } - /* - * We set it one so that the last submit_bio does not have to call - * atomic_inc. - */ atomic_set(&pending_req->pendcnt, nbio); - - /* Get a reference count for the disk queue and start sending I/O */ blk_start_plug(&plug); for (i = 0; i < nbio; i++) @@ -776,6 +770,7 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct x fail_put_bio: for (i = 0; i < nbio; i++) bio_put(biolist[i]); + atomic_set(&pending_req->pendcnt, 1); __end_block_io_op(pending_req, -EINVAL); msleep(1); /* back off a bit */ return -EIO; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from JBeulich@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/xen-blkback-fix-dispatch_rw_block_io-error-path.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html