This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm cache: fix corruption seen when using cache > 2TB to the 4.10-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: dm-cache-fix-corruption-seen-when-using-cache-2tb.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ca763d0a53b264a650342cee206512bc92ac7050 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 11:46:18 -0500 Subject: dm cache: fix corruption seen when using cache > 2TB From: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> commit ca763d0a53b264a650342cee206512bc92ac7050 upstream. A rounding bug due to compiler generated temporary being 32bit was found in remap_to_cache(). A localized cast in remap_to_cache() fixes the corruption but this preferred fix (changing from uint32_t to sector_t) eliminates potential for future rounding errors elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ struct cache { /* * Fields for converting from sectors to blocks. */ - uint32_t sectors_per_block; + sector_t sectors_per_block; int sectors_per_block_shift; spinlock_t lock; @@ -3547,11 +3547,11 @@ static void cache_status(struct dm_targe residency = policy_residency(cache->policy); - DMEMIT("%u %llu/%llu %u %llu/%llu %u %u %u %u %u %u %lu ", + DMEMIT("%u %llu/%llu %llu %llu/%llu %u %u %u %u %u %u %lu ", (unsigned)DM_CACHE_METADATA_BLOCK_SIZE, (unsigned long long)(nr_blocks_metadata - nr_free_blocks_metadata), (unsigned long long)nr_blocks_metadata, - cache->sectors_per_block, + (unsigned long long)cache->sectors_per_block, (unsigned long long) from_cblock(residency), (unsigned long long) from_cblock(cache->cache_size), (unsigned) atomic_read(&cache->stats.read_hit), Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ejt@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/dm-cache-fix-corruption-seen-when-using-cache-2tb.patch