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

    Target/iser: Bail from accept_np if np_thread is trying to close

to the 3.15-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:
     target-iser-bail-from-accept_np-if-np_thread-is-trying-to-close.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory.

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


>From e346ab343f4f58c12a96725c7b13df9cc2ad56f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 17:44:22 +0300
Subject: Target/iser: Bail from accept_np if np_thread is trying to close

From: Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>

commit e346ab343f4f58c12a96725c7b13df9cc2ad56f6 upstream.

In case np_thread state is in RESET/SHUTDOWN/EXIT states,
no point for isert to stall there as we may get a hang in
case no one will wake it up later.

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

---
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c
@@ -3156,9 +3156,14 @@ accept_wait:
                return -ENODEV;
 
        spin_lock_bh(&np->np_thread_lock);
-       if (np->np_thread_state == ISCSI_NP_THREAD_RESET) {
+       if (np->np_thread_state >= ISCSI_NP_THREAD_RESET) {
                spin_unlock_bh(&np->np_thread_lock);
-               pr_debug("ISCSI_NP_THREAD_RESET for isert_accept_np\n");
+               pr_debug("np_thread_state %d for isert_accept_np\n",
+                        np->np_thread_state);
+               /**
+                * No point in stalling here when np_thread
+                * is in state RESET/SHUTDOWN/EXIT - bail
+                **/
                return -ENODEV;
        }
        spin_unlock_bh(&np->np_thread_lock);


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

queue-3.15/target-iser-fix-hangs-in-connection-teardown.patch
queue-3.15/target-iser-bail-from-accept_np-if-np_thread-is-trying-to-close.patch
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