[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "dm thin: fix to consistently zero-fill reads to unprovisioned blocks" 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: fix to consistently zero-fill reads to unprovisioned blocks

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-ckt10.

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 c3dcf9f18ab4ea855eb1fd2d713ac3859cc99bf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Thornber <ejt at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:09:12 +0000
Subject: dm thin: fix to consistently zero-fill reads to unprovisioned blocks

commit 5f027a3bf184d1d36e68745f7cd3718a8b879cc0 upstream.

It was always intended that a read to an unprovisioned block will return
zeroes regardless of whether the pool is in read-only or read-write
mode.  thin_bio_map() was inconsistent with its handling of such reads
when the pool is in read-only mode, it now properly zero-fills the bios
it returns in response to unprovisioned block reads.

Eliminate thin_bio_map()'s special read-only mode handling of -ENODATA
and just allow the IO to be deferred to the worker which will result in
pool->process_bio() handling the IO (which already properly zero-fills
reads to unprovisioned blocks).

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>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
index add44f5a87b1..7924c3987cde 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -1938,17 +1938,6 @@ static int thin_bio_map(struct dm_target *ti, struct bio *bio)
 		return DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED;

 	case -ENODATA:
-		if (get_pool_mode(tc->pool) == PM_READ_ONLY) {
-			/*
-			 * This block isn't provisioned, and we have no way
-			 * of doing so.
-			 */
-			handle_unserviceable_bio(tc->pool, bio);
-			cell_defer_no_holder_no_free(tc, &cell1);
-			return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED;
-		}
-		/* fall through */
-
 	case -EWOULDBLOCK:
 		/*
 		 * In future, the failed dm_thin_find_block above could