4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Dan Williams <[email protected]> commit e5670563f588ed1c0603819350c0f02cec23f5c5 upstream. If we detect a namespace has a stale info block in the init path, we should overwrite with the latest configuration. In fact, we already return -ENODEV when the parent uuid is invalid, the same should be done for the 'self' uuid. Otherwise we can get into a condition where userspace is unable to reconfigure the pfn-device without directly / manually invalidating the info block. Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ int nd_pfn_validate(struct nd_pfn *nd_pf } else { /* from init we validate */ if (memcmp(nd_pfn->uuid, pfn_sb->uuid, 16) != 0) - return -EINVAL; + return -ENODEV; } /*
