1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/linear.c b/drivers/md/linear.c
index 1ceceb334d5e..00435bd20699 100644
--- a/drivers/md/linear.c
+++ b/drivers/md/linear.c
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static int linear_make_request (struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
         int cpu;
 
         if (unlikely(bio_rw_flagged(bio, BIO_RW_BARRIER))) {
-                bio_endio(bio, -EOPNOTSUPP);
+                md_barrier_request(mddev, bio);
                 return 0;
         }
 
@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ static void linear_exit (void)
 module_init(linear_init);
 module_exit(linear_exit);
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Linear device concatenation personality for MD");
 MODULE_ALIAS("md-personality-1"); /* LINEAR - deprecated*/
 MODULE_ALIAS("md-linear");
 MODULE_ALIAS("md-level--1");