From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 01:30:40 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: ore: Remove support of partial IO request (NFS crash)
X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.0.0-8.9~15657^2~3
X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=62b62ad873f2accad9222a4d7ffbe1e93f6714c1;p=mirror_ubuntu-disco-kernel.git

ore: Remove support of partial IO request (NFS crash)

Do to OOM situations the ore might fail to allocate all resources
needed for IO of the full request. If some progress was possible
it would proceed with a partial/short request, for the sake of
forward progress.

Since this crashes NFS-core and exofs is just fine without it just
remove this contraption, and fail.

TODO:
	Support real forward progress with some reserved allocations
	of resources, such as mem pools and/or bio_sets

[Bug since 3.2 Kernel]
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
CC: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/exofs/ore.c b/fs/exofs/ore.c
index 49cf230554a2..24a49d47e935 100644
--- a/fs/exofs/ore.c
+++ b/fs/exofs/ore.c
@@ -735,13 +735,7 @@ static int _prepare_for_striping(struct ore_io_state *ios)
 out:
 	ios->numdevs = devs_in_group;
 	ios->pages_consumed = cur_pg;
-	if (unlikely(ret)) {
-		if (length == ios->length)
-			return ret;
-		else
-			ios->length -= length;
-	}
-	return 0;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 int ore_create(struct ore_io_state *ios)