Patch "ibmvscsis: Fix srp_transfer_data fail return code" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ibmvscsis: Fix srp_transfer_data fail return code

to the 4.9-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:
ibmvscsis-fix-srp_transfer_data-fail-return-code.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: "Bryant G. Ly" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 10:21:20 -0600
Subject: ibmvscsis: Fix srp_transfer_data fail return code

From: Bryant G. Ly <[email protected]>

commit 7c9d8d0c41b3e24473ac7648a7fc2d644ccf08ff upstream.

If srp_transfer_data fails within ibmvscsis_write_pending, then the most likely scenario is that the client timed out the op and removed the TCE mapping. Thus it will loop forever retrying the op that is pretty much guaranteed to fail forever. A better return code would be EIO instead of EAGAIN.

---
 drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -3702,7 +3702,7 @@ static int ibmvscsis_write_pending(struc
 			       1, 1);
 	if (rc) {
 		pr_err("srp_transfer_data() failed: %d\n", rc);
-		return -EAGAIN;
+		return -EIO;
 	}
 	/*
 	 * We now tell TCM to add this WRITE CDB directly into the TCM storage

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/ibmvscsis-fix-srp_transfer_data-fail-return-code.patch