From: Mikulas Patocka If the snapshot we are merging became invalid (e.g. it ran out of space) redirect all I/O directly to the origin device. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.32/drivers/md/dm-snap.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.32.orig/drivers/md/dm-snap.c +++ linux-2.6.32/drivers/md/dm-snap.c @@ -1699,11 +1699,9 @@ static int snapshot_merge_map(struct dm_ down_write(&s->lock); - /* Full snapshots are not usable */ - if (!s->valid) { - r = -EIO; - goto out_unlock; - } + /* Full merging snapshots are redirected to the origin */ + if (!s->valid) + goto redirect_to_origin; /* If the block is already remapped - use that */ e = dm_lookup_exception(&s->complete, chunk); @@ -1726,6 +1724,7 @@ static int snapshot_merge_map(struct dm_ goto out_unlock; } +redirect_to_origin: bio->bi_bdev = s->origin->bdev; if (bio_rw(bio) == WRITE) {