This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled target/file: Do not return error for UNMAP if length is zero to the 3.18-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-file-do-not-return-error-for-unmap-if-length-is-zero.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 15:03:25 CET 2017 From: Jiang Yi <jiangyilism@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:29:44 +0800 Subject: target/file: Do not return error for UNMAP if length is zero From: Jiang Yi <jiangyilism@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 594e25e73440863981032d76c9b1e33409ceff6e ] The function fd_execute_unmap() in target_core_file.c calles ret = file->f_op->fallocate(file, mode, pos, len); Some filesystems implement fallocate() to return error if length is zero (e.g. btrfs) but according to SCSI Block Commands spec UNMAP should return success for zero length. Signed-off-by: Jiang Yi <jiangyilism@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/target_core_file.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/target/target_core_file.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_file.c @@ -592,6 +592,10 @@ fd_do_unmap(struct se_cmd *cmd, void *pr struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host; int ret; + if (!nolb) { + return 0; + } + if (cmd->se_dev->dev_attrib.pi_prot_type) { ret = fd_do_prot_unmap(cmd, lba, nolb); if (ret) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jiangyilism@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/target-file-do-not-return-error-for-unmap-if-length-is-zero.patch