This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bcache: Fix for when no journal entries are found to the 3.10-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: bcache-fix-for-when-no-journal-entries-are-found.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c426c4fd46f709ade2bddd51c5738729c7ae1db5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:17:29 -0700 Subject: bcache: Fix for when no journal entries are found From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit c426c4fd46f709ade2bddd51c5738729c7ae1db5 upstream. The journal replay code didn't handle this case, causing it to go into an infinite loop... Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bcache/journal.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c @@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ int bch_journal_read(struct cache_set *c bitmap_zero(bitmap, SB_JOURNAL_BUCKETS); pr_debug("%u journal buckets", ca->sb.njournal_buckets); - /* Read journal buckets ordered by golden ratio hash to quickly + /* + * Read journal buckets ordered by golden ratio hash to quickly * find a sequence of buckets with valid journal entries */ for (i = 0; i < ca->sb.njournal_buckets; i++) { @@ -164,18 +165,20 @@ int bch_journal_read(struct cache_set *c goto bsearch; } - /* If that fails, check all the buckets we haven't checked + /* + * If that fails, check all the buckets we haven't checked * already */ pr_debug("falling back to linear search"); - for (l = 0; l < ca->sb.njournal_buckets; l++) { - if (test_bit(l, bitmap)) - continue; - + for (l = find_first_zero_bit(bitmap, ca->sb.njournal_buckets); + l < ca->sb.njournal_buckets; + l = find_next_zero_bit(bitmap, ca->sb.njournal_buckets, l + 1)) if (read_bucket(l)) goto bsearch; - } + + if (list_empty(list)) + continue; bsearch: /* Binary search */ m = r = find_next_bit(bitmap, ca->sb.njournal_buckets, l + 1); @@ -195,10 +198,12 @@ bsearch: r = m; } - /* Read buckets in reverse order until we stop finding more + /* + * Read buckets in reverse order until we stop finding more * journal entries */ - pr_debug("finishing up"); + pr_debug("finishing up: m %u njournal_buckets %u", + m, ca->sb.njournal_buckets); l = m; while (1) { @@ -226,9 +231,10 @@ bsearch: } } - c->journal.seq = list_entry(list->prev, - struct journal_replay, - list)->j.seq; + if (!list_empty(list)) + c->journal.seq = list_entry(list->prev, + struct journal_replay, + list)->j.seq; return 0; #undef read_bucket Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-flush-fua-performance-bug.patch queue-3.10/bcache-fix-for-when-no-journal-entries-are-found.patch queue-3.10/block-fix-bio_copy_data.patch queue-3.10/bcache-fix-for-handling-overlapping-extents-when-reading-in-a-btree-node.patch queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-dumb-cpu-spinning-bug-in-writeback.patch queue-3.10/bcache-strip-endline-when-writing-the-label-through-sysfs.patch queue-3.10/bcache-fix-flushes-in-writeback-mode.patch queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-shrinker-deadlock.patch queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-writeback-performance-regression.patch queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-dumb-journal-discard-bug.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html