This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm bufio: Fix missing decrement of no_sleep_enabled if dm_bufio_client_create failed 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: dm-bufio-fix-missing-decrement-of-no_sleep_enabled-if-dm_bufio_client_create-failed.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. >From 0dfc1f4ceae86a0d09d880ab87625c86c61ed33c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:10:27 +0800 Subject: dm bufio: Fix missing decrement of no_sleep_enabled if dm_bufio_client_create failed From: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0dfc1f4ceae86a0d09d880ab87625c86c61ed33c upstream. The 'no_sleep_enabled' should be decreased in error handling path in dm_bufio_client_create() when the DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP flag is set, otherwise static_branch_unlikely() will always return true even if no dm_bufio_client instances have DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP flag set. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 3c1c875d0586 ("dm bufio: conditionally enable branching for DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP") Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c index 9c5ef818ca36..bb786c39545e 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c @@ -1858,6 +1858,8 @@ struct dm_bufio_client *dm_bufio_client_create(struct block_device *bdev, unsign dm_io_client_destroy(c->dm_io); bad_dm_io: mutex_destroy(&c->lock); + if (c->no_sleep) + static_branch_dec(&no_sleep_enabled); kfree(c); bad_client: return ERR_PTR(r); -- 2.38.1 Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.0/dm-bufio-fix-missing-decrement-of-no_sleep_enabled-if-dm_bufio_client_create-failed.patch