3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> commit a1989b330093578ea5470bea0a00f940c444c466 upstream. An invalid ioctl will never be valid, irrespective of whether multipath has active paths or not. So for invalid ioctls we do not have to wait for multipath to activate any paths, but can rather return an error code immediately. This fix resolves numerous instances of: udevd[]: worker [] unexpectedly returned with status 0x0100 that have been seen during testing. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c @@ -1608,8 +1608,11 @@ static int multipath_ioctl(struct dm_tar /* * Only pass ioctls through if the device sizes match exactly. */ - if (!r && ti->len != i_size_read(bdev->bd_inode) >> SECTOR_SHIFT) - r = scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(NULL, cmd); + if (!bdev || ti->len != i_size_read(bdev->bd_inode) >> SECTOR_SHIFT) { + int err = scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(NULL, cmd); + if (err) + r = err; + } if (r == -ENOTCONN && !fatal_signal_pending(current)) queue_work(kmultipathd, &m->process_queued_ios); -- 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