This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md: update slab_cache before releasing new stripes when stripes resizing 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: md-update-slab_cache-before-releasing-new-stripes-when-stripes-resizing.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 583da48e388f472e8818d9bb60ef6a1d40ee9f9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Yang <dennisyang@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:46:13 +0800 Subject: md: update slab_cache before releasing new stripes when stripes resizing From: Dennis Yang <dennisyang@xxxxxxxx> commit 583da48e388f472e8818d9bb60ef6a1d40ee9f9d upstream. When growing raid5 device on machine with small memory, there is chance that mdadm will be killed and the following bug report can be observed. The same bug could also be reproduced in linux-4.10.6. [57600.075774] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [57600.083796] IP: [<ffffffff81a6aa87>] _raw_spin_lock+0x7/0x20 [57600.110378] PGD 421cf067 PUD 4442d067 PMD 0 [57600.114678] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP [57600.180799] CPU: 1 PID: 25990 Comm: mdadm Tainted: P O 4.2.8 #1 [57600.187849] Hardware name: To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M./MAHOBAY, BIOS QV05AR66 03/06/2013 [57600.197490] task: ffff880044e47240 ti: ffff880043070000 task.ti: ffff880043070000 [57600.204963] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81a6aa87>] [<ffffffff81a6aa87>] _raw_spin_lock+0x7/0x20 [57600.213057] RSP: 0018:ffff880043073810 EFLAGS: 00010046 [57600.218359] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: ffff88011e296dd0 [57600.225486] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffe8ffffcb46c0 RDI: 0000000000000000 [57600.232613] RBP: ffff880043073878 R08: ffff88011e5f8170 R09: 0000000000000282 [57600.239739] R10: 0000000000000005 R11: 28f5c28f5c28f5c3 R12: ffff880043073838 [57600.246872] R13: ffffe8ffffcb46c0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8800b9706a00 [57600.253999] FS: 00007f576106c700(0000) GS:ffff88011e280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [57600.262078] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [57600.267817] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000428fe000 CR4: 00000000001406e0 [57600.274942] Stack: [57600.276949] ffffffff8114ee35 ffff880043073868 0000000000000282 000000000000eb3f [57600.284383] ffffffff81119043 ffff880043073838 ffff880043073838 ffff88003e197b98 [57600.291820] ffffe8ffffcb46c0 ffff88003e197360 0000000000000286 ffff880043073968 [57600.299254] Call Trace: [57600.301698] [<ffffffff8114ee35>] ? cache_flusharray+0x35/0xe0 [57600.307523] [<ffffffff81119043>] ? __page_cache_release+0x23/0x110 [57600.313779] [<ffffffff8114eb53>] kmem_cache_free+0x63/0xc0 [57600.319344] [<ffffffff81579942>] drop_one_stripe+0x62/0x90 [57600.324915] [<ffffffff81579b5b>] raid5_cache_scan+0x8b/0xb0 [57600.330563] [<ffffffff8111b98a>] shrink_slab.part.36+0x19a/0x250 [57600.336650] [<ffffffff8111e38c>] shrink_zone+0x23c/0x250 [57600.342039] [<ffffffff8111e4f3>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x153/0x420 [57600.348210] [<ffffffff8111e851>] try_to_free_pages+0x91/0xa0 [57600.353959] [<ffffffff811145b1>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4d1/0x8b0 [57600.360303] [<ffffffff8157a30b>] check_reshape+0x62b/0x770 [57600.365866] [<ffffffff8157a4a5>] raid5_check_reshape+0x55/0xa0 [57600.371778] [<ffffffff81583df7>] update_raid_disks+0xc7/0x110 [57600.377604] [<ffffffff81592b73>] md_ioctl+0xd83/0x1b10 [57600.382827] [<ffffffff81385380>] blkdev_ioctl+0x170/0x690 [57600.388307] [<ffffffff81195238>] block_ioctl+0x38/0x40 [57600.393525] [<ffffffff811731c5>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2b5/0x480 [57600.399010] [<ffffffff8115e07b>] ? vfs_write+0x14b/0x1f0 [57600.404400] [<ffffffff811733cc>] SyS_ioctl+0x3c/0x70 [57600.409447] [<ffffffff81a6ad97>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6a [57600.415875] Code: 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 8b 07 85 c0 74 04 31 c0 5d c3 ba 01 00 00 00 f0 0f b1 17 85 c0 75 ef b0 01 5d c3 90 31 c0 ba 01 00 00 00 <f0> 0f b1 17 85 c0 75 01 c3 55 89 c6 48 89 e5 e8 85 d1 63 ff 5d [57600.435460] RIP [<ffffffff81a6aa87>] _raw_spin_lock+0x7/0x20 [57600.441208] RSP <ffff880043073810> [57600.444690] CR2: 0000000000000000 [57600.448000] ---[ end trace cbc6b5cc4bf9831d ]--- The problem is that resize_stripes() releases new stripe_heads before assigning new slab cache to conf->slab_cache. If the shrinker function raid5_cache_scan() gets called after resize_stripes() starting releasing new stripes but right before new slab cache being assigned, it is possible that these new stripe_heads will be freed with the old slab_cache which was already been destoryed and that triggers this bug. Signed-off-by: Dennis Yang <dennisyang@xxxxxxxx> Fixes: edbe83ab4c27 ("md/raid5: allow the stripe_cache to grow and shrink.") Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid5.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -2253,6 +2253,10 @@ static int resize_stripes(struct r5conf err = -ENOMEM; mutex_unlock(&conf->cache_size_mutex); + + conf->slab_cache = sc; + conf->active_name = 1-conf->active_name; + /* Step 4, return new stripes to service */ while(!list_empty(&newstripes)) { nsh = list_entry(newstripes.next, struct stripe_head, lru); @@ -2270,8 +2274,6 @@ static int resize_stripes(struct r5conf } /* critical section pass, GFP_NOIO no longer needed */ - conf->slab_cache = sc; - conf->active_name = 1-conf->active_name; if (!err) conf->pool_size = newsize; return err; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dennisyang@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/md-update-slab_cache-before-releasing-new-stripes-when-stripes-resizing.patch