[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "dm thin: don't allow messages to be sent to a pool target in READ_ONLY or FAIL mode" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    dm thin: don't allow messages to be sent to a pool target in READ_ONLY or FAIL mode

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-ckt6.

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 3deb5859ee2211b73be48bf444cde991a6133045 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Thornber <ejt at redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:38:21 +0000
Subject: dm thin: don't allow messages to be sent to a pool target in
 READ_ONLY or FAIL mode

commit 2a7eaea02b99b6e267b1e89c79acc6e9a51cee3b upstream.

You can't modify the metadata in these modes.  It's better to fail these
messages immediately than let the block-manager deny write locks on
metadata blocks.  Otherwise these failed metadata changes will trigger
'needs_check' to get set in the metadata superblock -- requiring repair
using the thin_check utility.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
index 408ffba7ec63..add44f5a87b1 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -2913,6 +2913,12 @@ static int pool_message(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv)
 	struct pool_c *pt = ti->private;
 	struct pool *pool = pt->pool;

+	if (get_pool_mode(pool) >= PM_READ_ONLY) {
+		DMERR("%s: unable to service pool target messages in READ_ONLY or FAIL mode",
+		      dm_device_name(pool->pool_md));
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (!strcasecmp(argv[0], "create_thin"))
 		r = process_create_thin_mesg(argc, argv, pool);

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2.1.4