Patch "mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create()

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:
     mbcache-initialize-entry-e_referenced-in-mb_cache_entry_create.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 3876bbe27d04b848750d5310a37d6b76b593f648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 16:22:35 -0500
Subject: mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create()

From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 3876bbe27d04b848750d5310a37d6b76b593f648 upstream.

KMSAN reported use of uninitialized |entry->e_referenced| in a condition
in mb_cache_shrink():

==================================================================
BUG: KMSAN: use of uninitialized memory in mb_cache_shrink+0x3b4/0xc50 fs/mbcache.c:287
CPU: 2 PID: 816 Comm: kswapd1 Not tainted 4.11.0-rc5+ #2877
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs
01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x172/0x1c0 lib/dump_stack.c:52
 kmsan_report+0x12a/0x180 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:927
 __msan_warning_32+0x61/0xb0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:469
 mb_cache_shrink+0x3b4/0xc50 fs/mbcache.c:287
 mb_cache_scan+0x67/0x80 fs/mbcache.c:321
 do_shrink_slab mm/vmscan.c:397 [inline]
 shrink_slab+0xc3d/0x12d0 mm/vmscan.c:500
 shrink_node+0x208f/0x2fd0 mm/vmscan.c:2603
 kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:3172 [inline]
 balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:3289 [inline]
 kswapd+0x160f/0x2850 mm/vmscan.c:3478
 kthread+0x46c/0x5f0 kernel/kthread.c:230
 ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:430
chained origin:
 save_stack_trace+0x37/0x40 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59
 kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:302 [inline]
 kmsan_save_stack mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:317 [inline]
 kmsan_internal_chain_origin+0x12a/0x1f0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:547
 __msan_store_shadow_origin_1+0xac/0x110 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:257
 mb_cache_entry_create+0x3b3/0xc60 fs/mbcache.c:95
 ext4_xattr_cache_insert fs/ext4/xattr.c:1647 [inline]
 ext4_xattr_block_set+0x4c82/0x5530 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1022
 ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x1332/0x20a0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1252
 ext4_xattr_set+0x4d2/0x680 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1306
 ext4_xattr_trusted_set+0x8d/0xa0 fs/ext4/xattr_trusted.c:36
 __vfs_setxattr+0x703/0x790 fs/xattr.c:149
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x27a/0x6f0 fs/xattr.c:180
 vfs_setxattr fs/xattr.c:223 [inline]
 setxattr+0x6ae/0x790 fs/xattr.c:449
 path_setxattr+0x1eb/0x380 fs/xattr.c:468
 SYSC_lsetxattr+0x8d/0xb0 fs/xattr.c:490
 SyS_lsetxattr+0x77/0xa0 fs/xattr.c:486
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x94
origin:
 save_stack_trace+0x37/0x40 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59
 kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:302 [inline]
 kmsan_internal_poison_shadow+0xb1/0x1a0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:198
 kmsan_kmalloc+0x7f/0xe0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:337
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x1c2/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:2766
 mb_cache_entry_create+0x283/0xc60 fs/mbcache.c:86
 ext4_xattr_cache_insert fs/ext4/xattr.c:1647 [inline]
 ext4_xattr_block_set+0x4c82/0x5530 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1022
 ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x1332/0x20a0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1252
 ext4_xattr_set+0x4d2/0x680 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1306
 ext4_xattr_trusted_set+0x8d/0xa0 fs/ext4/xattr_trusted.c:36
 __vfs_setxattr+0x703/0x790 fs/xattr.c:149
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x27a/0x6f0 fs/xattr.c:180
 vfs_setxattr fs/xattr.c:223 [inline]
 setxattr+0x6ae/0x790 fs/xattr.c:449
 path_setxattr+0x1eb/0x380 fs/xattr.c:468
 SYSC_lsetxattr+0x8d/0xb0 fs/xattr.c:490
 SyS_lsetxattr+0x77/0xa0 fs/xattr.c:486
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x94
==================================================================

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.6
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/mbcache.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/mbcache.c
+++ b/fs/mbcache.c
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ int mb_cache_entry_create(struct mb_cach
 	entry->e_key = key;
 	entry->e_block = block;
 	entry->e_reusable = reusable;
+	entry->e_referenced = 0;
 	head = mb_cache_entry_head(cache, key);
 	hlist_bl_lock(head);
 	hlist_bl_for_each_entry(dup, dup_node, head, e_hash_list) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from glider@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-4.9/mbcache-initialize-entry-e_referenced-in-mb_cache_entry_create.patch



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