[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "dm thin metadata: fix bug when taking a metadata snapshot" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    dm thin metadata: fix bug when taking a metadata snapshot

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt2.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Joe Thornber <ejt at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:23:24 +0000
Subject: dm thin metadata: fix bug when taking a metadata snapshot

commit 49e99fc717f624aa75ca755d6e7bc029efd3f0e9 upstream.

When you take a metadata snapshot the btree roots for the mapping and
details tree need to have their reference counts incremented so they
persist for the lifetime of the metadata snap.

The roots being incremented were those currently written in the
superblock, which could possibly be out of date if concurrent IO is
triggering new mappings, breaking of sharing, etc.

Fix this by performing a commit with the metadata lock held while taking
a metadata snapshot.

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

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
index 53a7d58..4479e90 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
@@ -1203,6 +1203,12 @@ static int __reserve_metadata_snap(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd)
 	dm_block_t held_root;

 	/*
+	 * We commit to ensure the btree roots which we increment in a
+	 * moment are up to date.
+	 */
+	__commit_transaction(pmd);
+
+	/*
 	 * Copy the superblock.
 	 */
 	dm_sm_inc_block(pmd->metadata_sm, THIN_SUPERBLOCK_LOCATION);
--
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