This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fs/block_dev: always invalidate cleancache in invalidate_bdev() to the 4.11-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: fs-block_dev-always-invalidate-cleancache-in-invalidate_bdev.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a5f6a6a9c72eac38a7fadd1a038532bc8516337c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 14:56:02 -0700 Subject: fs/block_dev: always invalidate cleancache in invalidate_bdev() From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a5f6a6a9c72eac38a7fadd1a038532bc8516337c upstream. invalidate_bdev() calls cleancache_invalidate_inode() iff ->nrpages != 0 which doen't make any sense. Make sure that invalidate_bdev() always calls cleancache_invalidate_inode() regardless of mapping->nrpages value. Fixes: c515e1fd361c ("mm/fs: add hooks to support cleancache") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170424164135.22350-3-aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/block_dev.c | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -103,12 +103,11 @@ void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device { struct address_space *mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping; - if (mapping->nrpages == 0) - return; - - invalidate_bh_lrus(); - lru_add_drain_all(); /* make sure all lru add caches are flushed */ - invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, 0, -1); + if (mapping->nrpages) { + invalidate_bh_lrus(); + lru_add_drain_all(); /* make sure all lru add caches are flushed */ + invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, 0, -1); + } /* 99% of the time, we don't need to flush the cleancache on the bdev. * But, for the strange corners, lets be cautious */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/fs-block_dev-always-invalidate-cleancache-in-invalidate_bdev.patch queue-4.11/mm-prevent-potential-recursive-reclaim-due-to-clearing-pf_memalloc.patch queue-4.11/fs-fix-data-invalidation-in-the-cleancache-during-direct-io.patch