This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md: flush ->event_work before stopping array. to the 3.10-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: md-flush-event_work-before-stopping-array.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ee5d004fd0591536a061451eba2b187092e9127c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:20:07 +1000 Subject: md: flush ->event_work before stopping array. From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> commit ee5d004fd0591536a061451eba2b187092e9127c upstream. The 'event_work' worker used by dm-raid may still be running when the array is stopped. This can result in an oops. So flush the workqueue on which it is run after detaching and before destroying the device. Reported-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Fixes: 9d09e663d550 ("dm: raid456 basic support") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -5306,6 +5306,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(md_stop_writes); static void __md_stop(struct mddev *mddev) { mddev->ready = 0; + /* Ensure ->event_work is done */ + flush_workqueue(md_misc_wq); mddev->pers->stop(mddev); if (mddev->pers->sync_request && mddev->to_remove == NULL) mddev->to_remove = &md_redundancy_group; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/md-flush-event_work-before-stopping-array.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html