On 2018/8/23 2:02 AM, Coly Li wrote:
> From: Shan Hai <shan.hai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The writeback thread would exit with a lock held when the cache device is
> detached via sysfs interface, fix it by releasing the held lock before exiting
> the while-loop.
>
> Fixes: fadd94e05c02 (bcache: quit dc->writeback_thread when BCACHE_DEV_DETACHING is set)
> Signed-off-by: Shan Hai <shan.hai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Shenghui Wang <shhuiw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx #4.17+
> ---
> Changelog:
> v2: add Fixes tag by Coly Li.
> v1: initial patch from Shan Hai.
Hi Jens,
Please pick this patch for your next pull request. The change from Shan
Hai fixes a real issue which is reported and lately verified by Shenghui
Wang.
Thanks in advance.
Coly Li
>
> drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c
> index 6be05bd7ca67..08c3a9f9676c 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c
> @@ -685,8 +685,10 @@ static int bch_writeback_thread(void *arg)
> * data on cache. BCACHE_DEV_DETACHING flag is set in
> * bch_cached_dev_detach().
> */
> - if (test_bit(BCACHE_DEV_DETACHING, &dc->disk.flags))
> + if (test_bit(BCACHE_DEV_DETACHING, &dc->disk.flags)) {
> + up_write(&dc->writeback_lock);
> break;
> + }
> }
>
> up_write(&dc->writeback_lock);
>
