Re: [PATCH 3.15 099/139] libiscsi, iser: Adjust data_length to include protection information

[Mike Christie]

On 07/02/2014 05:15 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 10:47 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> > 3.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>> > 
>> > ------------------
>> > 
>> > From: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > 
>> > commit d77e65350f2d82dfa0557707d505711f5a43c8fd upstream.
>> > 
>> > In case protection information exists over the wire
>> > iscsi header data length is required to include it.
>> > Use protection information aware scsi helpers to set
>> > the correct transfer length.
>> > 
>> > In order to avoid breakage, remove iser transfer length
>> > checks for each task as they are not always true and
>> > somewhat redundant anyway.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Acked-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > 
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c |   34 +++++++--------------------
>> >  drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c                      |   18 +++++++-------
>> >  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> I'm a bit late to object, but this is causing a regression for me on
> 3.15.3 and 3.16-rc.  Using an iscsi_tcp rootfs, I'm seeing the NULL


A fix for this is in Christoph's tree. Here is the status of the patch.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=140432482527273&w=2
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