[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "drbd: merge_bvec_fn: properly remap bvm->bi_bdev" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Jan 7 10:28:38 UTC 2015


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

    drbd: merge_bvec_fn: properly remap bvm->bi_bdev

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-ckt4.

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 518206ca234906f9fe7278f64dcf39a5ea00425e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:21:13 +0100
Subject: drbd: merge_bvec_fn: properly remap bvm->bi_bdev

commit 3b9d35d744bb5139f9fed57f38c019bb8c7d351c upstream.

This was not noticed for many years. Affects operation if
md raid is used a backing device for DRBD.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner at linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
index 09803d0d5207..eeba503ee7bb 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
@@ -1343,6 +1343,7 @@ int drbd_merge_bvec(struct request_queue *q, struct bvec_merge_data *bvm, struct
 		struct request_queue * const b =
 			device->ldev->backing_bdev->bd_disk->queue;
 		if (b->merge_bvec_fn) {
+			bvm->bi_bdev = device->ldev->backing_bdev;
 			backing_limit = b->merge_bvec_fn(b, bvm, bvec);
 			limit = min(limit, backing_limit);
 		}
--
2.1.4





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