linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] drivers base: transport component error propagation

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Date:   Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:56:28 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, rafael@...nel.org, lduncan@...e.com,
        cleech@...hat.com, jejb@...ux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        open-iscsi@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] drivers base: transport component error propagation


Gabriel,

> This small series improves error propagation on the transport
> component to prevent an inconsistent state in the iscsi module.  The
> bug that motivated this patch results in a hanging iscsi connection
> that cannot be used or removed by userspace, since the session is in
> an inconsistent state.
>
> That said, I tested it using the TCP iscsi transport (and forcing
> errors on the triggered function), which doesn't require a
> particularly complex container structure, so it is not the best test
> for finding corner cases on the atomic attribute_container_device
> trigger version.

Applied to 5.6/scsi-queue, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering