Patch "dm io: fix a race condition in the wake up code for sync_io" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    dm io: fix a race condition in the wake up code for sync_io

to the 3.14-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:
     dm-io-fix-a-race-condition-in-the-wake-up-code-for-sync_io.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 10f1d5d111e8aed46a0f1179faf9a3cf422f689e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Thornber <thornber@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:29:04 -0400
Subject: dm io: fix a race condition in the wake up code for sync_io

From: Joe Thornber <thornber@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 10f1d5d111e8aed46a0f1179faf9a3cf422f689e upstream.

There's a race condition between the atomic_dec_and_test(&io->count)
in dec_count() and the waking of the sync_io() thread.  If the thread
is spuriously woken immediately after the decrement it may exit,
making the on stack io struct invalid, yet the dec_count could still
be using it.

Fix this race by using a completion in sync_io() and dec_count().

Reported-by: Minfei Huang <huangminfei@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/md/dm-io.c |   22 ++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-io.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-io.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <linux/device-mapper.h>
 
 #include <linux/bio.h>
+#include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/mempool.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ struct dm_io_client {
 struct io {
 	unsigned long error_bits;
 	atomic_t count;
-	struct task_struct *sleeper;
+	struct completion *wait;
 	struct dm_io_client *client;
 	io_notify_fn callback;
 	void *context;
@@ -121,8 +122,8 @@ static void dec_count(struct io *io, uns
 			invalidate_kernel_vmap_range(io->vma_invalidate_address,
 						     io->vma_invalidate_size);
 
-		if (io->sleeper)
-			wake_up_process(io->sleeper);
+		if (io->wait)
+			complete(io->wait);
 
 		else {
 			unsigned long r = io->error_bits;
@@ -387,6 +388,7 @@ static int sync_io(struct dm_io_client *
 	 */
 	volatile char io_[sizeof(struct io) + __alignof__(struct io) - 1];
 	struct io *io = (struct io *)PTR_ALIGN(&io_, __alignof__(struct io));
+	DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(wait);
 
 	if (num_regions > 1 && (rw & RW_MASK) != WRITE) {
 		WARN_ON(1);
@@ -395,7 +397,7 @@ static int sync_io(struct dm_io_client *
 
 	io->error_bits = 0;
 	atomic_set(&io->count, 1); /* see dispatch_io() */
-	io->sleeper = current;
+	io->wait = &wait;
 	io->client = client;
 
 	io->vma_invalidate_address = dp->vma_invalidate_address;
@@ -403,15 +405,7 @@ static int sync_io(struct dm_io_client *
 
 	dispatch_io(rw, num_regions, where, dp, io, 1);
 
-	while (1) {
-		set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-
-		if (!atomic_read(&io->count))
-			break;
-
-		io_schedule();
-	}
-	set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+	wait_for_completion_io(&wait);
 
 	if (error_bits)
 		*error_bits = io->error_bits;
@@ -434,7 +428,7 @@ static int async_io(struct dm_io_client
 	io = mempool_alloc(client->pool, GFP_NOIO);
 	io->error_bits = 0;
 	atomic_set(&io->count, 1); /* see dispatch_io() */
-	io->sleeper = NULL;
+	io->wait = NULL;
 	io->client = client;
 	io->callback = fn;
 	io->context = context;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thornber@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.14/dm-io-fix-a-race-condition-in-the-wake-up-code-for-sync_io.patch
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