This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
md-cluster: fix potential lock issue in add_new_disk
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-cluster-fix-potential-lock-issue-in-add_new_disk.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 Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018
From: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 14:01:25 +0800
Subject: md-cluster: fix potential lock issue in add_new_disk
From: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@xxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 2dffdc0724004f38f5e39907747b53e4b0d80e59 ]
The add_new_disk returns with communication locked if
__sendmsg returns failure, fix it with call unlock_comm
before return.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md-cluster.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/md/md-cluster.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md-cluster.c
@@ -945,8 +945,10 @@ static int add_new_disk(struct mddev *md
cmsg.raid_slot = cpu_to_le32(rdev->desc_nr);
lock_comm(cinfo);
ret = __sendmsg(cinfo, &cmsg);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ unlock_comm(cinfo);
return ret;
+ }
cinfo->no_new_dev_lockres->flags |= DLM_LKF_NOQUEUE;
ret = dlm_lock_sync(cinfo->no_new_dev_lockres, DLM_LOCK_EX);
cinfo->no_new_dev_lockres->flags &= ~DLM_LKF_NOQUEUE;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gqjiang@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/md-cluster-fix-potential-lock-issue-in-add_new_disk.patch