On Mon, 9 Mar 2020, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Hi
Here I'm sending the patch for the stable branches 4.4 and 4.9.
Mikulas
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 7cdf6a0aae1cccf5167f3f04ecddcf648b78e289 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:25:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] dm cache: fix a crash due to incorrect work item cancelling
The crash can be reproduced by running the lvm2 testsuite test
lvconvert-thin-external-cache.sh for several minutes, e.g.:
while :; do make check T=shell/lvconvert-thin-external-cache.sh; done
The crash happens in this call chain:
do_waker -> policy_tick -> smq_tick -> end_hotspot_period -> clear_bitset
-> memset -> __memset -- which accesses an invalid pointer in the vmalloc
area.
The work entry on the workqueue is executed even after the bitmap was
freed. The problem is that cancel_delayed_work doesn't wait for the
running work item to finish, so the work item can continue running and
re-submitting itself even after cache_postsuspend. In order to make sure
that the work item won't be running, we must use cancel_delayed_work_sync.
Also, change flush_workqueue to drain_workqueue, so that if some work item
submits itself or another work item, we are properly waiting for both of
them.
Fixes: c6b4fcbad044 ("dm: add cache target")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.9
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux-stable/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c
===================================================================
--- linux-stable.orig/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c 2020-03-10 10:03:40.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-stable/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c 2020-03-10 10:03:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -2192,8 +2192,8 @@ static void wait_for_migrations(struct c
static void stop_worker(struct cache *cache)
{
- cancel_delayed_work(&cache->waker);
- flush_workqueue(cache->wq);
+ cancel_delayed_work_sync(&cache->waker);
+ drain_workqueue(cache->wq);
}
static void requeue_deferred_cells(struct cache *cache)
