Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] block,scsi: fixup blk_get_request dead queue scenarios

From: Jeff Moyer
Date: Tue Aug 26 2014 - 13:25:12 EST


Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> v2->v3: rebase to 3.16-rc2, consider return values from the
> blk_mq_alloc_request leg of the blk_get_request callchain
> (noted by Jeff), noted in the second patch changelog.
>
> blk_mq_queue_enter may return 0 or errno, which
> blk_mq_alloc_request can propogate out via ERR_PTR.
> __blk_mq_alloc_request doesn't include any blk_queue_dying
> checks, so I'm assuming that its failures can be attributed
> to -EWOULDBLOCK under !GFP_WAIT conditions.
>
> v1->v2: incorporate Jeff's feedback in bsg_map_hdr() and Reviewed-by
> tags.
>
> Joe Lawrence (2):
> block,scsi: verify return pointer from blk_get_request
> block,scsi: fixup blk_get_request dead queue scenarios

Jens,

Did this patch set fall through the cracks again?

Cheers,
Jeff
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