[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "dm bufio: initialize read-only module parameters" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    dm bufio: initialize read-only module parameters

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From ce73f3bf51c80acb74fa63cd963155d21572ccbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:33:29 -0500
Subject: dm bufio: initialize read-only module parameters

commit 4cb57ab4a2e61978f3a9b7d4f53988f30d61c27f upstream.

Some module parameters in dm-bufio are read-only. These parameters
inform the user about memory consumption. They are not supposed to be
changed by the user.

However, despite being read-only, these parameters can be set on
modprobe or insmod command line, for example:
modprobe dm-bufio current_allocated_bytes=12345

The kernel doesn't expect that these variables can be non-zero at module
initialization and if the user sets them, it results in BUG.

This patch initializes the variables in the module init routine, so that
user-supplied values are ignored.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
index 5227e07..dcb867c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -1703,6 +1703,11 @@ static int __init dm_bufio_init(void)
 {
 	__u64 mem;

+	dm_bufio_allocated_kmem_cache = 0;
+	dm_bufio_allocated_get_free_pages = 0;
+	dm_bufio_allocated_vmalloc = 0;
+	dm_bufio_current_allocated = 0;
+
 	memset(&dm_bufio_caches, 0, sizeof dm_bufio_caches);
 	memset(&dm_bufio_cache_names, 0, sizeof dm_bufio_cache_names);

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