This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nbd: correct disconnect behavior 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: nbd-correct-disconnect-behavior.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 c378f70adbc1bbecd9e6db145019f14b2f688c7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Clements <paul.clements@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:09:04 -0700 Subject: nbd: correct disconnect behavior From: Paul Clements <paul.clements@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit c378f70adbc1bbecd9e6db145019f14b2f688c7c upstream. Currently, when a disconnect is requested by the user (via NBD_DISCONNECT ioctl) the return from NBD_DO_IT is undefined (it is usually one of several error codes). This means that nbd-client does not know if a manual disconnect was performed or whether a network error occurred. Because of this, nbd-client's persist mode (which tries to reconnect after error, but not after manual disconnect) does not always work correctly. This change fixes this by causing NBD_DO_IT to always return 0 if a user requests a disconnect. This means that nbd-client can correctly either persist the connection (if an error occurred) or disconnect (if the user requested it). Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [xr: Backported to 3.4: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 8 +++++++- include/linux/nbd.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -590,8 +590,11 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_devi nbd_cmd(&sreq) = NBD_CMD_DISC; if (!nbd->sock) return -EINVAL; + + nbd->disconnect = 1; + nbd_send_req(nbd, &sreq); - return 0; + return 0; } case NBD_CLEAR_SOCK: { @@ -620,6 +623,7 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_devi nbd->sock = SOCKET_I(inode); if (max_part > 0) bdev->bd_invalidated = 1; + nbd->disconnect = 0; /* we're connected now */ return 0; } else { fput(file); @@ -691,6 +695,8 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_devi set_capacity(nbd->disk, 0); if (max_part > 0) ioctl_by_bdev(bdev, BLKRRPART, 0); + if (nbd->disconnect) /* user requested, ignore socket errors */ + return 0; return nbd->harderror; } --- a/include/linux/nbd.h +++ b/include/linux/nbd.h @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ struct nbd_device { u64 bytesize; pid_t pid; /* pid of nbd-client, if attached */ int xmit_timeout; + int disconnect; /* a disconnect has been requested by user */ }; #endif Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paul.clements@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/nbd-correct-disconnect-behavior.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