[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "dm thin: initialize dm_thin_new_mapping returned by get_next_mapping" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Feb 5 13:12:58 UTC 2014


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

    dm thin: initialize dm_thin_new_mapping returned by get_next_mapping

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 8c84ff7ac00b31570369cacfe2f64574b46bf872 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:19:11 -0500
Subject: dm thin: initialize dm_thin_new_mapping returned by get_next_mapping

commit 16961b042db8cc5cf75d782b4255193ad56e1d4f upstream.

As additional members are added to the dm_thin_new_mapping structure
care should be taken to make sure they get initialized before use.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 17 ++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
index 38c8a5f..754026b 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -751,13 +751,17 @@ static int ensure_next_mapping(struct pool *pool)

 static struct dm_thin_new_mapping *get_next_mapping(struct pool *pool)
 {
-	struct dm_thin_new_mapping *r = pool->next_mapping;
+	struct dm_thin_new_mapping *m = pool->next_mapping;

 	BUG_ON(!pool->next_mapping);

+	memset(m, 0, sizeof(struct dm_thin_new_mapping));
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&m->list);
+	m->bio = NULL;
+
 	pool->next_mapping = NULL;

-	return r;
+	return m;
 }

 static void schedule_copy(struct thin_c *tc, dm_block_t virt_block,
@@ -769,15 +773,10 @@ static void schedule_copy(struct thin_c *tc, dm_block_t virt_block,
 	struct pool *pool = tc->pool;
 	struct dm_thin_new_mapping *m = get_next_mapping(pool);

-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&m->list);
-	m->quiesced = 0;
-	m->prepared = 0;
 	m->tc = tc;
 	m->virt_block = virt_block;
 	m->data_block = data_dest;
 	m->cell = cell;
-	m->err = 0;
-	m->bio = NULL;

 	if (!dm_deferred_set_add_work(pool->shared_read_ds, &m->list))
 		m->quiesced = 1;
@@ -840,15 +839,12 @@ static void schedule_zero(struct thin_c *tc, dm_block_t virt_block,
 	struct pool *pool = tc->pool;
 	struct dm_thin_new_mapping *m = get_next_mapping(pool);

-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&m->list);
 	m->quiesced = 1;
 	m->prepared = 0;
 	m->tc = tc;
 	m->virt_block = virt_block;
 	m->data_block = data_block;
 	m->cell = cell;
-	m->err = 0;
-	m->bio = NULL;

 	/*
 	 * If the whole block of data is being overwritten or we are not
@@ -1039,7 +1035,6 @@ static void process_discard(struct thin_c *tc, struct bio *bio)
 			m->data_block = lookup_result.block;
 			m->cell = cell;
 			m->cell2 = cell2;
-			m->err = 0;
 			m->bio = bio;

 			if (!dm_deferred_set_add_work(pool->all_io_ds, &m->list)) {
--
1.8.3.2





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