This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/dasd: fix refcount for PAV reassignment 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: s390-dasd-fix-refcount-for-pav-reassignment.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 9d862ababb609439c5d6987f6d3ddd09e703aa0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:45:05 +0100 Subject: s390/dasd: fix refcount for PAV reassignment From: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 9d862ababb609439c5d6987f6d3ddd09e703aa0b upstream. Add refcount to the DASD device when a summary unit check worker is scheduled. This prevents that the device is set offline with worker in place. Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c +++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c @@ -264,8 +264,10 @@ void dasd_alias_disconnect_device_from_l spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lcu->lock, flags); cancel_work_sync(&lcu->suc_data.worker); spin_lock_irqsave(&lcu->lock, flags); - if (device == lcu->suc_data.device) + if (device == lcu->suc_data.device) { + dasd_put_device(device); lcu->suc_data.device = NULL; + } } was_pending = 0; if (device == lcu->ruac_data.device) { @@ -273,8 +275,10 @@ void dasd_alias_disconnect_device_from_l was_pending = 1; cancel_delayed_work_sync(&lcu->ruac_data.dwork); spin_lock_irqsave(&lcu->lock, flags); - if (device == lcu->ruac_data.device) + if (device == lcu->ruac_data.device) { + dasd_put_device(device); lcu->ruac_data.device = NULL; + } } private->lcu = NULL; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lcu->lock, flags); @@ -549,8 +553,10 @@ static void lcu_update_work(struct work_ if ((rc && (rc != -EOPNOTSUPP)) || (lcu->flags & NEED_UAC_UPDATE)) { DBF_DEV_EVENT(DBF_WARNING, device, "could not update" " alias data in lcu (rc = %d), retry later", rc); - schedule_delayed_work(&lcu->ruac_data.dwork, 30*HZ); + if (!schedule_delayed_work(&lcu->ruac_data.dwork, 30*HZ)) + dasd_put_device(device); } else { + dasd_put_device(device); lcu->ruac_data.device = NULL; lcu->flags &= ~UPDATE_PENDING; } @@ -593,8 +599,10 @@ static int _schedule_lcu_update(struct a */ if (!usedev) return -EINVAL; + dasd_get_device(usedev); lcu->ruac_data.device = usedev; - schedule_delayed_work(&lcu->ruac_data.dwork, 0); + if (!schedule_delayed_work(&lcu->ruac_data.dwork, 0)) + dasd_put_device(usedev); return 0; } @@ -926,6 +934,7 @@ static void summary_unit_check_handling_ /* 3. read new alias configuration */ _schedule_lcu_update(lcu, device); lcu->suc_data.device = NULL; + dasd_put_device(device); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lcu->lock, flags); } @@ -985,6 +994,8 @@ void dasd_alias_handle_summary_unit_chec } lcu->suc_data.reason = reason; lcu->suc_data.device = device; + dasd_get_device(device); spin_unlock(&lcu->lock); - schedule_work(&lcu->suc_data.worker); + if (!schedule_work(&lcu->suc_data.worker)) + dasd_put_device(device); }; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stefan.haberland@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/s390-dasd-prevent-incorrect-length-error-under-z-vm-after-pav-changes.patch queue-3.10/s390-dasd-fix-refcount-for-pav-reassignment.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