This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: fix race in ext4_mb_add_n_trim()
to the 3.8-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:
ext4-fix-race-in-ext4_mb_add_n_trim.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f1167009711032b0d747ec89a632a626c901a1ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niu Yawei <yawei.niu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 21:31:27 -0500
Subject: ext4: fix race in ext4_mb_add_n_trim()
From: Niu Yawei <yawei.niu@xxxxxxxxx>
commit f1167009711032b0d747ec89a632a626c901a1ad upstream.
In ext4_mb_add_n_trim(), lg_prealloc_lock should be taken when
changing the lg_prealloc_list.
Signed-off-by: Niu Yawei <yawei.niu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -4136,7 +4136,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_add_n_trim(struct ex
/* The max size of hash table is PREALLOC_TB_SIZE */
order = PREALLOC_TB_SIZE - 1;
/* Add the prealloc space to lg */
- rcu_read_lock();
+ spin_lock(&lg->lg_prealloc_lock);
list_for_each_entry_rcu(tmp_pa, &lg->lg_prealloc_list[order],
pa_inode_list) {
spin_lock(&tmp_pa->pa_lock);
@@ -4160,12 +4160,12 @@ static void ext4_mb_add_n_trim(struct ex
if (!added)
list_add_tail_rcu(&pa->pa_inode_list,
&lg->lg_prealloc_list[order]);
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ spin_unlock(&lg->lg_prealloc_lock);
/* Now trim the list to be not more than 8 elements */
if (lg_prealloc_count > 8) {
ext4_mb_discard_lg_preallocations(sb, lg,
- order, lg_prealloc_count);
+ order, lg_prealloc_count);
return;
}
return ;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yawei.niu@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/ext4-fix-race-in-ext4_mb_add_n_trim.patch
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