Patch "xen-blkback: replace work_pending with work_busy in purge_persistent_gnt()" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xen-blkback: replace work_pending with work_busy in purge_persistent_gnt()
to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
xen-blkback-replace-work_pending-with-work_busy-in-purge_persistent_gnt.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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From: Bob Liu <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:40:10 +0800
Subject: xen-blkback: replace work_pending with work_busy in purge_persistent_gnt()
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From: Bob Liu <[email protected]>
commit 53bc7dc004fecf39e0ba70f2f8d120a1444315d3 upstream.
The BUG_ON() in purge_persistent_gnt() will be triggered when previous purge work haven't finished.
There is a work_pending() before this BUG_ON, but it doesn't account if the work is still currently running.
--- drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c +2 -2
@@ -362,8 +362,8 @@ static void purge_persistent_gnt(structreturn ; } -if (work_pending (&blkif->persistent_purge_work)) { -pr_alert_ratelimited ("Scheduled work from previous purge is still pending, cannot purge list\n" ); +if (work_busy (&blkif->persistent_purge_work)) { +pr_alert_ratelimited ("Scheduled work from previous purge is still busy, cannot purge list\n" );return ; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.1/xen-blkback-replace-work_pending-with-work_busy-in-purge_persistent_gnt.patch queue-4.1/xen-blkfront-don-t-add-indirect-pages-to-list-when.patch