This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled iscsi-target: Return error if unable to add network portal to the 4.9-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: iscsi-target-return-error-if-unable-to-add-network-portal.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 83337e544323a8bd7492994d64af339175ac7107 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Varun Prakash <varun@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 22:05:56 +0530 Subject: iscsi-target: Return error if unable to add network portal From: Varun Prakash <varun@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 83337e544323a8bd7492994d64af339175ac7107 upstream. If iscsit_tpg_add_network_portal() fails then return error code instead of 0 to user space. If iscsi-target returns 0 then user space keeps on retrying same command infinitely, targetcli or echo hangs till command completes with non zero return value. In some cases it is possible that add network portal command never completes with success even after retrying multiple times, for example - cxgbit_setup_np() always returns -EINVAL if portal IP does not belong to Chelsio adapter interface. Signed-off-by: Varun Prakash <varun@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ bvanassche: Added "Fixes:" and "Cc: stable" tags ] Fixes: commit d4b3fa4b0881 ("iscsi-target: Make iscsi_tpg_np driver show/store use generic code") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c @@ -100,8 +100,10 @@ static ssize_t lio_target_np_driver_stor tpg_np_new = iscsit_tpg_add_network_portal(tpg, &np->np_sockaddr, tpg_np, type); - if (IS_ERR(tpg_np_new)) + if (IS_ERR(tpg_np_new)) { + rc = PTR_ERR(tpg_np_new); goto out; + } } else { tpg_np_new = iscsit_tpg_locate_child_np(tpg_np, type); if (tpg_np_new) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from varun@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/iscsi-target-return-error-if-unable-to-add-network-portal.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