This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
md/linear: shutup lockdep warnning
to the 4.4-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-linear-shutup-lockdep-warnning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Oct 19 15:15:46 CEST 2017
From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:57:01 -0800
Subject: md/linear: shutup lockdep warnning
From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit d939cdfde34f50b95254b375f498447c82190b3e ]
Commit 03a9e24(md linear: fix a race between linear_add() and
linear_congested()) introduces the warnning.
Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/linear.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/md/linear.c
+++ b/drivers/md/linear.c
@@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ static int linear_add(struct mddev *mdde
* oldconf until no one uses it anymore.
*/
mddev_suspend(mddev);
- oldconf = rcu_dereference(mddev->private);
+ oldconf = rcu_dereference_protected(mddev->private,
+ lockdep_is_held(&mddev->reconfig_mutex));
mddev->raid_disks++;
WARN_ONCE(mddev->raid_disks != newconf->raid_disks,
"copied raid_disks doesn't match mddev->raid_disks");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shli@xxxxxx are
queue-4.4/md-linear-shutup-lockdep-warnning.patch