This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md/raid10: fix bug when raid10 recovery fails to recover a block. to the 3.4-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-raid10-fix-bug-when-raid10-recovery-fails-to-recover-a-block.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e8b849158508565e0cd6bc80061124afc5879160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 10:35:34 +1100 Subject: md/raid10: fix bug when raid10 recovery fails to recover a block. From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> commit e8b849158508565e0cd6bc80061124afc5879160 upstream. commit e875ecea266a543e643b19e44cf472f1412708f9 md/raid10 record bad blocks as needed during recovery. added code to the "cannot recover this block" path to record a bad block rather than fail the whole recovery. Unfortunately this new case was placed *after* r10bio was freed rather than *before*, yet it still uses r10bio. This is will crash with a null dereference. So move the freeing of r10bio down where it is safe. Fixes: e875ecea266a543e643b19e44cf472f1412708f9 Reported-by: Damian Nowak <spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> URL: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68181 Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid10.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c @@ -2943,10 +2943,6 @@ static sector_t sync_request(struct mdde if (j == conf->copies) { /* Cannot recover, so abort the recovery or * record a bad block */ - put_buf(r10_bio); - if (rb2) - atomic_dec(&rb2->remaining); - r10_bio = rb2; if (any_working) { /* problem is that there are bad blocks * on other device(s) @@ -2978,6 +2974,10 @@ static sector_t sync_request(struct mdde mirror->recovery_disabled = mddev->recovery_disabled; } + put_buf(r10_bio); + if (rb2) + atomic_dec(&rb2->remaining); + r10_bio = rb2; break; } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@xxxxxxx are queue-3.4/md-raid10-fix-bug-when-raid10-recovery-fails-to-recover-a-block.patch queue-3.4/md-raid5-fix-possible-confusion-when-multiple-write-errors-occur.patch queue-3.4/md-raid10-fix-two-bugs-in-handling-of-known-bad-blocks.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