Re: [PATCH 1/2] libnvdimm: fix clear length of nvdimm_forget_poison()

[Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> wrote:
> ND_CMD_CLEAR_ERROR command returns 'clear_err.cleared', the length
> of error actually cleared, which may be smaller than its requested
> 'len'.
>
> Change nvdimm_clear_poison() to call nvdimm_forget_poison() with
> 'clear_err.cleared' when this value is valid.
>
> Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> ---
> Based on 'libnvdimm-for-next'.
> ---
>  drivers/nvdimm/bus.c |    4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c b/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
> index d214ac44..43ddfd4 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
> @@ -219,7 +219,9 @@ long nvdimm_clear_poison(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys,
>         if (cmd_rc < 0)
>                 return cmd_rc;
>
> -       nvdimm_forget_poison(nvdimm_bus, phys, len);
> +       if (clear_err.cleared > 0)
> +               nvdimm_forget_poison(nvdimm_bus, phys, clear_err.cleared);
> +
>         return clear_err.cleared;

Looks, good we need to mark this for -stable since the bug is also
present in current mainline.

Fixes: e046114af5fc ("libnvdimm: clear the internal poison_list when
clearing badblocks")