APPLIED[X/A]: [SRU][Xenial][Artful][Bionic][v2][PATCH 0/1] UBUNTU: SAUCE: (no-up) bcache: decouple emitting a cached_dev CHANGE uevent

[Khaled Elmously]

Applied to X and A only

On 2017-12-11 09:12:00 , Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1729145
> 
> == SRU Justification ==
> This bug is preventing /dev/bcache/by-uuid links from being created after reboot.
> It appears that since the initramfs loads the bcache module which probes and 
> finds all of the cache devices and backing devices then once the rootfs is
> mounted and udev gets to run, the bcache kernel module does not emit the
> CACHED_UUID value into the environment if the underlying devices are already registered.     
> 
> With this patch, instead of just failing with "device already registered"
> the kernel emits another uevent with CACHED_UUID which would be processed
> another time to set up a symlink.
> 
> This patch is not yet upstream, but we will submit it there as well.  However,
> requesting this a SAUCE patch until it lands upstream.
> 
> Zesty also requires this patch.  However, it needs a prereq commit, so it will
> be SRU'd separately.
> 
> == Fix ==
> Patch from Ryan Harper <ryan.harper at canonical.com>:
> bcache: decouple emitting a cached_dev CHANGE uevent
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> There is some risk of regression, since this is new code.   However, it is
> limited to the bcache.
> 
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
> The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
> 
> Ryan Harper (1):
>   bcache: decouple emitting a cached_dev CHANGE uevent
> 
>  drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h |  1 +
>  drivers/md/bcache/super.c  | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
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