This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm vdo: don't refer to dedupe_context after releasing it to the 6.11-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-vdo-don-t-refer-to-dedupe_context-after-releasing.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b576ba6d591402037cfc8e553bb8da3be45092f3 Author: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jul 26 15:08:53 2024 -0400 dm vdo: don't refer to dedupe_context after releasing it [ Upstream commit 0808ebf2f80b962e75741a41ced372a7116f1e26 ] Clear the dedupe_context pointer in a data_vio whenever ownership of the context is lost, so that vdo can't examine it accidentally. Signed-off-by: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-vdo/dedupe.c b/drivers/md/dm-vdo/dedupe.c index 39ac68614419f..80628ae93fbac 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-vdo/dedupe.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-vdo/dedupe.c @@ -729,6 +729,7 @@ static void process_update_result(struct data_vio *agent) !change_context_state(context, DEDUPE_CONTEXT_COMPLETE, DEDUPE_CONTEXT_IDLE)) return; + agent->dedupe_context = NULL; release_context(context); } @@ -1648,6 +1649,7 @@ static void process_query_result(struct data_vio *agent) if (change_context_state(context, DEDUPE_CONTEXT_COMPLETE, DEDUPE_CONTEXT_IDLE)) { agent->is_duplicate = decode_uds_advice(context); + agent->dedupe_context = NULL; release_context(context); } } @@ -2321,6 +2323,7 @@ static void timeout_index_operations_callback(struct vdo_completion *completion) * send its requestor on its way. */ list_del_init(&context->list_entry); + context->requestor->dedupe_context = NULL; continue_data_vio(context->requestor); timed_out++; }