This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm space map disk: fix some book keeping in the disk space map to the 4.9-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-space-map-disk-fix-some-book-keeping-in-the-disk-space-map.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0377a07c7a035e0d033cd8b29f0cb15244c0916a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 09:45:40 -0400 Subject: dm space map disk: fix some book keeping in the disk space map From: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0377a07c7a035e0d033cd8b29f0cb15244c0916a upstream. When decrementing the reference count for a block, the free count wasn't being updated if the reference count went to zero. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-disk.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-disk.c +++ b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-disk.c @@ -142,10 +142,23 @@ static int sm_disk_inc_block(struct dm_s static int sm_disk_dec_block(struct dm_space_map *sm, dm_block_t b) { + int r; + uint32_t old_count; enum allocation_event ev; struct sm_disk *smd = container_of(sm, struct sm_disk, sm); - return sm_ll_dec(&smd->ll, b, &ev); + r = sm_ll_dec(&smd->ll, b, &ev); + if (!r && (ev == SM_FREE)) { + /* + * It's only free if it's also free in the last + * transaction. + */ + r = sm_ll_lookup(&smd->old_ll, b, &old_count); + if (!r && !old_count) + smd->nr_allocated_this_transaction--; + } + + return r; } static int sm_disk_new_block(struct dm_space_map *sm, dm_block_t *b) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ejt@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/dm-space-map-disk-fix-some-book-keeping-in-the-disk-space-map.patch queue-4.9/dm-thin-metadata-call-precommit-before-saving-the-roots.patch