The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: fix locking for res->tracking and dlm->tracking_list has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ocfs2-fix-locking-for-res-tracking-and-dlm-tracking_list.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ocfs2-fix-locking-for-res-tracking-and-dlm-tracking_list.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ocfs2-fix-locking-for-res-tracking-and-dlm-tracking_list.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ashish Samant <ashish.samant@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: fix locking for res->tracking and dlm->tracking_list In dlm_init_lockres() we access and modify res->tracking and dlm->tracking_list without holding dlm->track_lock. This can cause list corruptions and can end up in kernel panic. Fix this by locking res->tracking and dlm->tracking_list with dlm->track_lock instead of dlm->spinlock. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1529951192-4686-1-git-send-email-ashish.samant@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ashish Samant <ashish.samant@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Changwei Ge <ge.changwei@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changwei Ge <ge.changwei@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c~ocfs2-fix-locking-for-res-tracking-and-dlm-tracking_list +++ a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c @@ -584,9 +584,9 @@ static void dlm_init_lockres(struct dlm_ res->last_used = 0; - spin_lock(&dlm->spinlock); + spin_lock(&dlm->track_lock); list_add_tail(&res->tracking, &dlm->tracking_list); - spin_unlock(&dlm->spinlock); + spin_unlock(&dlm->track_lock); memset(res->lvb, 0, DLM_LVB_LEN); memset(res->refmap, 0, sizeof(res->refmap)); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ashish.samant@xxxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-fix-locking-for-res-tracking-and-dlm-tracking_list.patch