[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "aoe: do not call bdi_init after blk_alloc_queue" has been added to staging queue

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Mon Jan 14 20:58:41 UTC 2013


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

    aoe: do not call bdi_init after blk_alloc_queue

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.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-3.5.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 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From d3e37177b14249646df6e9ca06210d95e89c5a25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ed Cashin <ecashin at coraid.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 06:43:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] aoe: do not call bdi_init after blk_alloc_queue

[ this is part of commit 0a41409c518083133e79015092585d68915865be upstream,
  kernels <= 3.6 requires this different patch ]

blk_alloc_queue has already done a bdi_init, so do not bdi_init
again in aoeblk_gdalloc.  The extra call causes list corruption
in the per-CPU backing dev info stats lists.

Affected users see console WARNINGs about list_del corruption on
percpu_counter_destroy when doing "rmmod aoe" or "aoeflush -a"
when AoE targets have been detected and initialized by the
system.

The patch below applies to v3.6.11, with its v47 aoe driver.  It
is expected to apply to all currently maintained stable kernels
except 3.7.y.  A related but different fix has been posted for
3.7.y.

References:

  RedHat bugzilla ticket with original report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853064

  LKML discussion of bug and fix
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1416336/focus=1416497

Reported-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin at coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h    |    2 +-
 drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c |    5 -----
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h
index db195ab..e49ddd0 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Copyright (c) 2007 Coraid, Inc.  See COPYING for GPL terms. */
-#define VERSION "47"
+#define VERSION "47q"
 #define AOE_MAJOR 152
 #define DEVICE_NAME "aoe"

diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
index 321de7b..7eca463 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
@@ -276,8 +276,6 @@ aoeblk_gdalloc(void *vp)
 		goto err_mempool;
 	blk_queue_make_request(d->blkq, aoeblk_make_request);
 	d->blkq->backing_dev_info.name = "aoe";
-	if (bdi_init(&d->blkq->backing_dev_info))
-		goto err_blkq;
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&d->lock, flags);
 	gd->major = AOE_MAJOR;
 	gd->first_minor = d->sysminor * AOE_PARTITIONS;
@@ -298,9 +296,6 @@ aoeblk_gdalloc(void *vp)
 	aoedisk_add_sysfs(d);
 	return;

-err_blkq:
-	blk_cleanup_queue(d->blkq);
-	d->blkq = NULL;
 err_mempool:
 	mempool_destroy(d->bufpool);
 err_disk:
--
1.7.9.5





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