This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm raid: stop using BUG() in __rdev_sectors() to the 4.12-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-raid-stop-using-bug-in-__rdev_sectors.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4d49f1b4a1fcab16b6dd1c79ef14f2b6531d50a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 15:45:58 +0200 Subject: dm raid: stop using BUG() in __rdev_sectors() From: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 4d49f1b4a1fcab16b6dd1c79ef14f2b6531d50a6 upstream. Return 0 rather than BUG() if __rdev_sectors() fails and catch invalid rdev size in the constructor. Reported-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-raid.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c @@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ static sector_t __rdev_sectors(struct ra return rdev->sectors; } - BUG(); /* Constructor ensures we got some. */ + return 0; } /* Calculate the sectors per device and per array used for @rs */ @@ -2941,7 +2941,7 @@ static int raid_ctr(struct dm_target *ti bool resize; struct raid_type *rt; unsigned int num_raid_params, num_raid_devs; - sector_t calculated_dev_sectors; + sector_t calculated_dev_sectors, rdev_sectors; struct raid_set *rs = NULL; const char *arg; struct rs_layout rs_layout; @@ -3017,7 +3017,14 @@ static int raid_ctr(struct dm_target *ti if (r) goto bad; - resize = calculated_dev_sectors != __rdev_sectors(rs); + rdev_sectors = __rdev_sectors(rs); + if (!rdev_sectors) { + ti->error = "Invalid rdev size"; + r = -EINVAL; + goto bad; + } + + resize = calculated_dev_sectors != rdev_sectors; INIT_WORK(&rs->md.event_work, do_table_event); ti->private = rs; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.12/dm-raid-stop-using-bug-in-__rdev_sectors.patch