This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
md: Remove extra mddev_get() in md_seq_start()
to the 6.0-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:
md-remove-extra-mddev_get-in-md_seq_start.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 3966d808b3978d65615f8550be377cc6370a6775
Author: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Sep 8 10:15:15 2022 -0600
md: Remove extra mddev_get() in md_seq_start()
[ Upstream commit 3bfc3bcd787c48aa31e4fde4a6dfcef4cd7ee2c2 ]
A regression is seen where mddev devices stay permanently after they
are stopped due to an elevated reference count.
This was tracked down to an extra mddev_get() in md_seq_start().
It only happened rarely because most of the time the md_seq_start()
is called with a zero offset. The path with an extra mddev_get() only
happens when it starts with a non-zero offset.
The commit noted below changed an mddev_get() to check its success
but inadvertently left the original call in. Remove the extra call.
Fixes: 12a6caf27324 ("md: only delete entries from all_mddevs when the disk is freed")
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang <Guoqing.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 729be2c5296c..470a975e4be9 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -8156,7 +8156,6 @@ static void *md_seq_start(struct seq_file *seq, loff_t *pos)
list_for_each(tmp,&all_mddevs)
if (!l--) {
mddev = list_entry(tmp, struct mddev, all_mddevs);
- mddev_get(mddev);
if (!mddev_get(mddev))
continue;
spin_unlock(&all_mddevs_lock);
