This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled target: Allow Write Exclusive non-reservation holders to READ 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-allow-write-exclusive-non-reservation-holders-to-read.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 1ecc7586922662e3ca2f3f0c3f17fec8749fc621 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 10:49:44 -0800 Subject: target: Allow Write Exclusive non-reservation holders to READ From: Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx> commit 1ecc7586922662e3ca2f3f0c3f17fec8749fc621 upstream. For PGR reservation of type Write Exclusive Access, allow all non reservation holding I_T nexuses with active registrations to READ from the device. This addresses a bug where active registrations that attempted to READ would result in an reservation conflict. Signed-off-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/target_core_pr.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/target/target_core_pr.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_pr.c @@ -518,6 +518,18 @@ static int core_scsi3_pr_seq_non_holder( return 0; } + } else if (we && registered_nexus) { + /* + * Reads are allowed for Write Exclusive locks + * from all registrants. + */ + if (cmd->data_direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) { + pr_debug("Allowing READ CDB: 0x%02x for %s" + " reservation\n", cdb[0], + core_scsi3_pr_dump_type(pr_reg_type)); + + return 0; + } } pr_debug("%s Conflict for %sregistered nexus %s CDB: 0x%2x" " for %s reservation\n", transport_dump_cmd_direction(cmd), Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lduncan@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/target-allow-write-exclusive-non-reservation-holders-to-read.patch queue-3.10/target-allow-allregistrants-to-re-reserve-existing-reservation.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