[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 182/216] dm thin: fix inability to discard blocks when in out-of-data-space mode

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Jan 12 18:29:20 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt4 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Joe Thornber <ejt at redhat.com>

commit 45ec9bd0fd7abf8705e7cf12205ff69fe9d51181 upstream.

When the pool was in PM_OUT_OF_SPACE mode its process_prepared_discard
function pointer was incorrectly being set to
process_prepared_discard_passdown rather than process_prepared_discard.

This incorrect function pointer meant the discard was being passed down,
but not effecting the mapping.  As such any discard that was issued, in
an attempt to reclaim blocks, would not successfully free data space.

Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>
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 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
index 6f75083a81cc..c13efb1020d9 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ static void set_pool_mode(struct pool *pool, enum pool_mode new_mode)
 		pool->process_bio = process_bio_read_only;
 		pool->process_discard = process_discard;
 		pool->process_prepared_mapping = process_prepared_mapping;
-		pool->process_prepared_discard = process_prepared_discard_passdown;
+		pool->process_prepared_discard = process_prepared_discard;
 
 		if (!pool->pf.error_if_no_space && no_space_timeout)
 			queue_delayed_work(pool->wq, &pool->no_space_timeout, no_space_timeout);
-- 
2.1.4





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