Patch "loopdev: fix a deadlock" has been added to the 3.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    loopdev: fix a deadlock

to the 3.4-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:
     loopdev-fix-a-deadlock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 5370019dc2d2c2ff90e95d181468071362934f3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:16:45 -0800
Subject: loopdev: fix a deadlock

From: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 5370019dc2d2c2ff90e95d181468071362934f3a upstream.

bd_mutex and lo_ctl_mutex can be held in different order.

Path #1:

blkdev_open
 blkdev_get
  __blkdev_get (hold bd_mutex)
   lo_open (hold lo_ctl_mutex)

Path #2:

blkdev_ioctl
 lo_ioctl (hold lo_ctl_mutex)
  lo_set_capacity (hold bd_mutex)

Lockdep does not report it, because path #2 actually holds a subclass of
lo_ctl_mutex.  This subclass seems creep into the code by mistake.  The
patch author actually just mentioned it in the changelog, see commit
f028f3b2 ("loop: fix circular locking in loop_clr_fd()"), also see:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123806169129727&w=2

Path #2 hold bd_mutex to call bd_set_size(), I've protected it
with i_mutex in a previous patch, so drop bd_mutex at this site.

Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: M. Hindess <hindessm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/block/loop.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1263,11 +1263,9 @@ static int loop_set_capacity(struct loop
 	/* the width of sector_t may be narrow for bit-shift */
 	sz = sec;
 	sz <<= 9;
-	mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
 	bd_set_size(bdev, sz);
 	/* let user-space know about the new size */
 	kobject_uevent(&disk_to_dev(bdev->bd_disk)->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE);
-	mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
 
  out:
 	return err;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.4/loopdev-fix-a-deadlock.patch
queue-3.4/block-use-i_size_write-in-bd_set_size.patch
queue-3.4/loopdev-remove-an-user-triggerable-oops.patch
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