This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled libceph: unregister request in __map_request failed and nofail == false to the 3.4-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: libceph-unregister-request-in-__map_request-failed-and-nofail-false.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From be47dfad8e39e8b849fd0487292b3998284ddbc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: majianpeng <majianpeng@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:45:48 +0800 Subject: libceph: unregister request in __map_request failed and nofail == false From: majianpeng <majianpeng@xxxxxxxxx> commit 73d9f7eef3d98c3920e144797cc1894c6b005a1e upstream. For nofail == false request, if __map_request failed, the caller does cleanup work, like releasing the relative pages. It doesn't make any sense to retry this request. Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust indentation] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ceph/osd_client.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/ceph/osd_client.c +++ b/net/ceph/osd_client.c @@ -1721,6 +1721,8 @@ int ceph_osdc_start_request(struct ceph_ dout("osdc_start_request failed map, " " will retry %lld\n", req->r_tid); rc = 0; + } else { + __unregister_request(osdc, req); } goto out_unlock; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from majianpeng@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/libceph-unregister-request-in-__map_request-failed-and-nofail-false.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