This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled target: Fix >= v3.9+ regression in PR APTPL + ALUA metadata write-out to the 3.10-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: target-fix-v3.9-regression-in-pr-aptpl-alua-metadata-write-out.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f730f9158f6ee7b5c4d892af6b51a72194445ea4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gera Kazakov <gkazakov@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 15:47:06 -0700 Subject: target: Fix >= v3.9+ regression in PR APTPL + ALUA metadata write-out From: Gera Kazakov <gkazakov@xxxxxxx> commit f730f9158f6ee7b5c4d892af6b51a72194445ea4 upstream. This patch fixes a >= v3.9+ regression in __core_scsi3_write_aptpl_to_file() + core_alua_write_tpg_metadata() write-out, where a return value of -EIO was incorrectly being returned upon success. This bug was originally introduced in: commit 0e9b10a90f1c30f25dd6f130130240745ab14010 Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Feb 23 15:22:43 2013 -0500 target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless However, given that the return of core_scsi3_update_and_write_aptpl() was not used to determine if a command should be returned with non GOOD status, this bug was not being triggered in PR logic until v3.11-rc1 by commit: commit 459f213ba162bd13e113d6f92a8fa6c780fd67ed Author: Andy Grover <agrover@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu May 16 10:41:02 2013 -0700 target: Allocate aptpl_buf inside update_and_write_aptpl() So, go ahead and only return -EIO if kernel_write() returned a negative value. Reported-by: Gera Kazakov <gkazakov@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Gera Kazakov <gkazakov@xxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/target_core_alua.c | 2 +- drivers/target/target_core_pr.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/target/target_core_alua.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_alua.c @@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ static int core_alua_write_tpg_metadata( if (ret < 0) pr_err("Error writing ALUA metadata file: %s\n", path); fput(file); - return ret ? -EIO : 0; + return (ret < 0) ? -EIO : 0; } /* --- a/drivers/target/target_core_pr.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_pr.c @@ -1987,7 +1987,7 @@ static int __core_scsi3_write_aptpl_to_f pr_debug("Error writing APTPL metadata file: %s\n", path); fput(file); - return ret ? -EIO : 0; + return (ret < 0) ? -EIO : 0; } static int Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gkazakov@xxxxxxx are queue-3.10/target-fix-v3.9-regression-in-pr-aptpl-alua-metadata-write-out.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