This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bcache: prevent crash on changing writeback_running
to the 3.14-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:
bcache-prevent-crash-on-changing-writeback_running.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8d16ce540c94c9d366eb36fc91b7154d92d6397b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:44:49 -0800
Subject: bcache: prevent crash on changing writeback_running
From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 8d16ce540c94c9d366eb36fc91b7154d92d6397b upstream.
Added a safeguard in the shutdown case. At least while not being
attached it is also possible to trigger a kernel bug by writing into
writeback_running. This change adds the same check before trying to
wake up the thread for that case.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.h
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ static inline bool should_writeback(stru
static inline void bch_writeback_queue(struct cached_dev *dc)
{
- wake_up_process(dc->writeback_thread);
+ if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dc->writeback_thread))
+ wake_up_process(dc->writeback_thread);
}
static inline void bch_writeback_add(struct cached_dev *dc)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/bcache-prevent-crash-on-changing-writeback_running.patch
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