This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dm snapshot: fix error return code in snapshot_ctr
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:
dm-snapshot-fix-error-return-code-in-snapshot_ctr.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 09e8b813897a0f85bb401435d009228644c81214 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 14:37:15 +0100
Subject: dm snapshot: fix error return code in snapshot_ctr
From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 09e8b813897a0f85bb401435d009228644c81214 upstream.
Return -ENOMEM instead of success if unable to allocate pending
exception mempool in snapshot_ctr.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
@@ -1117,6 +1117,7 @@ static int snapshot_ctr(struct dm_target
s->pending_pool = mempool_create_slab_pool(MIN_IOS, pending_cache);
if (!s->pending_pool) {
ti->error = "Could not allocate mempool for pending exceptions";
+ r = -ENOMEM;
goto bad_pending_pool;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/dm-snapshot-fix-error-return-code-in-snapshot_ctr.patch
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