This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled 9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC to the 4.1-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: 9p-forgetting-to-cancel-request-on-interrupted-zero-copy-rpc.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a84b69cb6e0a41e86bc593904faa6def3b957343 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 16:04:19 -0400 Subject: 9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a84b69cb6e0a41e86bc593904faa6def3b957343 upstream. If we'd already sent a request and decide to abort it, we *must* issue TFLUSH properly and not just blindly reuse the tag, or we'll get seriously screwed when response eventually arrives and we confuse it for response to later request that had reused the same tag. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/9p/client.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/9p/client.c +++ b/net/9p/client.c @@ -843,7 +843,8 @@ static struct p9_req_t *p9_client_zc_rpc if (err < 0) { if (err == -EIO) c->status = Disconnected; - goto reterr; + if (err != -ERESTARTSYS) + goto reterr; } if (req->status == REQ_STATUS_ERROR) { p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_ERROR, "req_status error %d\n", req->t_err); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/9p-forgetting-to-cancel-request-on-interrupted-zero-copy-rpc.patch queue-4.1/9p-don-t-leave-a-half-initialized-inode-sitting-around.patch queue-4.1/p9_client_write-avoid-double-p9_free_req.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