commit 82103978 upstream.

This patch resulted from the discussion at
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679277,
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681840 .
Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ankit Jain <jankit@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>