This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm-raid: fix a race condition in request handling to the 4.13-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-fix-a-race-condition-in-request-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c4d6a1b8e8ea79c439a4871cba540443c9eb13b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:29:22 -0700 Subject: dm-raid: fix a race condition in request handling From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> commit c4d6a1b8e8ea79c439a4871cba540443c9eb13b9 upstream. raid_map calls pers->make_request, which missed the suspend check. Fix it with the new md_handle_request API. Fix: cc27b0c78c79(md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start()) Cc: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-raid.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c @@ -3238,7 +3238,7 @@ static int raid_map(struct dm_target *ti if (unlikely(bio_end_sector(bio) > mddev->array_sectors)) return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE; - mddev->pers->make_request(mddev, bio); + md_handle_request(mddev, bio); return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shli@xxxxxx are queue-4.13/md-raid5-preserve-stripe_on_unplug_list-in-break_stripe_batch_list.patch queue-4.13/dm-raid-fix-a-race-condition-in-request-handling.patch queue-4.13/md-raid5-fix-a-race-condition-in-stripe-batch.patch