[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "um: ubd: Fix for processes stuck in D state forever" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    um: ubd: Fix for processes stuck in D state forever

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From b9256513ba99ff64e0041186563c870ee166cf44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thorsten Knabe <linux at thorsten-knabe.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:47:38 +0200
Subject: um: ubd: Fix for processes stuck in D state forever

commit 2a2361228c5e6d8c1733f00653481de918598e50 upstream.

Starting with Linux 3.12 processes get stuck in D state forever in
UserModeLinux under sync heavy workloads. This bug was introduced by
commit 805f11a0d5 (um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport).
Fix bug by adding a check if FLUSH request was successfully submitted to
the I/O thread and keeping the FLUSH request on the request queue on
submission failures.

Fixes: 805f11a0d5 (um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport)
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Knabe <linux at thorsten-knabe.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
index 3716e6952554..e8ab93c3e638 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
@@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ static void do_ubd_request(struct request_queue *q)

 	while(1){
 		struct ubd *dev = q->queuedata;
-		if(dev->end_sg == 0){
+		if(dev->request == NULL){
 			struct request *req = blk_fetch_request(q);
 			if(req == NULL)
 				return;
@@ -1299,7 +1299,8 @@ static void do_ubd_request(struct request_queue *q)
 				return;
 			}
 			prepare_flush_request(req, io_req);
-			submit_request(io_req, dev);
+			if (submit_request(io_req, dev) == false)
+				return;
 		}

 		while(dev->start_sg < dev->end_sg){
--
2.1.0