The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-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
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 15b81ce5abdc4b502aa31dff2d415b79d2349d2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 16:49:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] block: nr_sects_write(): Disable preemption on seqcount write
For optimized block readers not holding a mutex, the "number of sectors"
64-bit value is protected from tearing on 32-bit architectures by a
sequence counter.
Disable preemption before entering that sequence counter's write side
critical section. Otherwise, the read side can preempt the write side
section and spin for the entire scheduler tick. If the reader belongs to
a real-time scheduling class, it can spin forever and the kernel will
livelock.
Fixes: c83f6bf98dc1 ("block: add partition resize function to blkpg ioctl")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h
index aa16e524dc35..b5d1f0fc6547 100644
--- a/block/blk.h
+++ b/block/blk.h
@@ -420,9 +420,11 @@ static inline sector_t part_nr_sects_read(struct hd_struct *part)
static inline void part_nr_sects_write(struct hd_struct *part, sector_t size)
{
#if BITS_PER_LONG==32 && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+ preempt_disable();
write_seqcount_begin(&part->nr_sects_seq);
part->nr_sects = size;
write_seqcount_end(&part->nr_sects_seq);
+ preempt_enable();
#elif BITS_PER_LONG==32 && defined(CONFIG_PREEMPTION)
preempt_disable();
part->nr_sects = size;
