This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm snapshot: fix lockup in dm_exception_table_exit to the 6.7-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-snapshot-fix-lockup-in-dm_exception_table_exit.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4efed027117efdd074872bef8ccf1c42786b2582 Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 20 18:43:11 2024 +0100 dm snapshot: fix lockup in dm_exception_table_exit [ Upstream commit 6e7132ed3c07bd8a6ce3db4bb307ef2852b322dc ] There was reported lockup when we exit a snapshot with many exceptions. Fix this by adding "cond_resched" to the loop that frees the exceptions. Reported-by: John Pittman <jpittman@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c index bf7a574499a34..0ace06d1bee38 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c @@ -684,8 +684,10 @@ static void dm_exception_table_exit(struct dm_exception_table *et, for (i = 0; i < size; i++) { slot = et->table + i; - hlist_bl_for_each_entry_safe(ex, pos, n, slot, hash_list) + hlist_bl_for_each_entry_safe(ex, pos, n, slot, hash_list) { kmem_cache_free(mem, ex); + cond_resched(); + } } kvfree(et->table);