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

    iscsit: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock

to the 3.4-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:
     iscsit-use-gfp_atomic-under-spin-lock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

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


>From 3c989d7603872bf878840f7ce3ea49b73bea4c6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:07:39 +0800
Subject: iscsit: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock

From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>

commit 3c989d7603872bf878840f7ce3ea49b73bea4c6c upstream.

The function iscsit_build_conn_drop_async_message() is called
from iscsit_close_connection() with spin lock 'sess->conn_lock'
held, so we should use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
@@ -2359,7 +2359,7 @@ static void iscsit_build_conn_drop_async
        if (!conn_p)
                return;
 
-       cmd = iscsit_allocate_cmd(conn_p, GFP_KERNEL);
+       cmd = iscsit_allocate_cmd(conn_p, GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (!cmd) {
                iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count(conn_p);
                return;


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

queue-3.4/iscsit-use-gfp_atomic-under-spin-lock.patch
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