[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "dm: hold suspend_lock while suspending device during device deletion" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Apr 7 22:48:42 UTC 2015


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

    dm: hold suspend_lock while suspending device during device deletion

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt19.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From d71c9db9553943c3d816f5b439b9d7b57d2d40d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:04:27 -0500
Subject: dm: hold suspend_lock while suspending device during device deletion

commit ab7c7bb6f4ab95dbca96fcfc4463cd69843e3e24 upstream.

__dm_destroy() must take the suspend_lock so that its presuspend and
postsuspend calls do not race with an internal suspend.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index b8570e9..5489410 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -2485,10 +2485,16 @@ static void __dm_destroy(struct mapped_device *md, bool wait)
 	set_bit(DMF_FREEING, &md->flags);
 	spin_unlock(&_minor_lock);

+	/*
+	 * Take suspend_lock so that presuspend and postsuspend methods
+	 * do not race with internal suspend.
+	 */
+	mutex_lock(&md->suspend_lock);
 	if (!dm_suspended_md(md)) {
 		dm_table_presuspend_targets(map);
 		dm_table_postsuspend_targets(map);
 	}
+	mutex_unlock(&md->suspend_lock);

 	/* dm_put_live_table must be before msleep, otherwise deadlock is possible */
 	dm_put_live_table(md, srcu_idx);
--
1.9.1





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