This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm btree remove: fix use after free in rebalance_children() to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: dm-btree-remove-fix-use-after-free-in-rebalance_children.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1b8d2789dad0005fd5e7d35dab26a8e1203fb6da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:07:39 -0500 Subject: dm btree remove: fix use after free in rebalance_children() From: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 1b8d2789dad0005fd5e7d35dab26a8e1203fb6da upstream. Move dm_tm_unlock() after dm_tm_dec(). Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c +++ b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c @@ -423,9 +423,9 @@ static int rebalance_children(struct sha memcpy(n, dm_block_data(child), dm_bm_block_size(dm_tm_get_bm(info->tm))); - dm_tm_unlock(info->tm, child); dm_tm_dec(info->tm, dm_block_location(child)); + dm_tm_unlock(info->tm, child); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ejt@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/dm-btree-remove-fix-use-after-free-in-rebalance_children.patch