[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "NFS: nfs_set_pgio_error sometimes misses errors" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Sep 28 17:20:57 UTC 2015


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

    NFS: nfs_set_pgio_error sometimes misses errors

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/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt18.

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 721d693dc4dcee5a606609f3659d43b1dbfef6d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at primarydata.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:57:07 -0500
Subject: NFS: nfs_set_pgio_error sometimes misses errors

commit e9ae58aeee8842a50f7e199d602a5ccb2e41a95f upstream.

We should ensure that we always set the pgio_header's error field
if a READ or WRITE RPC call returns an error. The current code depends
on 'hdr->good_bytes' always being initialised to a large value, which
is not always done correctly by callers.
When this happens, applications may end up missing important errors.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
index 54d049f930f7..2bd81a6d308c 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_pgheader_init);
 void nfs_set_pgio_error(struct nfs_pgio_header *hdr, int error, loff_t pos)
 {
 	spin_lock(&hdr->lock);
-	if (pos < hdr->io_start + hdr->good_bytes) {
-		set_bit(NFS_IOHDR_ERROR, &hdr->flags);
+	if (!test_and_set_bit(NFS_IOHDR_ERROR, &hdr->flags)
+	    || pos < hdr->io_start + hdr->good_bytes) {
 		clear_bit(NFS_IOHDR_EOF, &hdr->flags);
 		hdr->good_bytes = pos - hdr->io_start;
 		hdr->error = error;




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