[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "xen-blkback: fix dispatch_rw_block_io() error path" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    xen-blkback: fix dispatch_rw_block_io() error path

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 8333508da30d4217dd81d88b334bf44f083806be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at suse.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:39:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] xen-blkback: fix dispatch_rw_block_io() error path

commit 0e5e098ac22dae38f957e951b70d3cf73beff0f7 upstream.

Commit 7708992 ("xen/blkback: Seperate the bio allocation and the bio
submission") consolidated the pendcnt updates to just a single write,
neglecting the fact that the error path relied on it getting set to 1
up front (such that the decrement in __end_block_io_op() would actually
drop the count to zero, triggering the necessary cleanup actions).

Also remove a misleading and a stale (after said commit) comment.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
index c85d91a..4fd1dea 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -743,13 +743,7 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 		bio->bi_end_io  = end_block_io_op;
 	}

-	/*
-	 * We set it one so that the last submit_bio does not have to call
-	 * atomic_inc.
-	 */
 	atomic_set(&pending_req->pendcnt, nbio);
-
-	/* Get a reference count for the disk queue and start sending I/O */
 	blk_start_plug(&plug);

 	for (i = 0; i < nbio; i++)
@@ -777,6 +771,7 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
  fail_put_bio:
 	for (i = 0; i < nbio; i++)
 		bio_put(biolist[i]);
+	atomic_set(&pending_req->pendcnt, 1);
 	__end_block_io_op(pending_req, -EINVAL);
 	msleep(1); /* back off a bit */
 	return -EIO;
--
1.8.1.2