This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm integrity: do not check integrity for failed read operations to the 4.13-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-integrity-do-not-check-integrity-for-failed-read-operations.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b7e326f7b7375392d06f9cfbc27a7c63181f69d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hyunchul Lee <cheol.lee@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:22:20 +0900 Subject: dm integrity: do not check integrity for failed read operations From: Hyunchul Lee <cheol.lee@xxxxxxx> commit b7e326f7b7375392d06f9cfbc27a7c63181f69d7 upstream. Even though read operations fail, dm_integrity_map_continue() calls integrity_metadata() to check integrity. In this case, just complete these. This also makes it so read I/O errors do not generate integrity warnings in the kernel log. Signed-off-by: Hyunchul Lee <cheol.lee@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c @@ -1697,7 +1697,11 @@ sleep: if (need_sync_io) { wait_for_completion_io(&read_comp); - integrity_metadata(&dio->work); + if (likely(!bio->bi_status)) + integrity_metadata(&dio->work); + else + dec_in_flight(dio); + } else { INIT_WORK(&dio->work, integrity_metadata); queue_work(ic->metadata_wq, &dio->work); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cheol.lee@xxxxxxx are queue-4.13/dm-integrity-do-not-check-integrity-for-failed-read-operations.patch