This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled libceph: gracefully handle large reply messages from the mon to the 3.16-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: libceph-gracefully-handle-large-reply-messages-from-the-mon.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 73c3d4812b4c755efeca0140f606f83772a39ce4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 07:01:54 -0700 Subject: libceph: gracefully handle large reply messages from the mon From: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 73c3d4812b4c755efeca0140f606f83772a39ce4 upstream. We preallocate a few of the message types we get back from the mon. If we get a larger message than we are expecting, fall back to trying to allocate a new one instead of blindly using the one we have. Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ilya Dryomov <ilya.dryomov@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ceph/mon_client.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/net/ceph/mon_client.c +++ b/net/ceph/mon_client.c @@ -1181,7 +1181,15 @@ static struct ceph_msg *mon_alloc_msg(st if (!m) { pr_info("alloc_msg unknown type %d\n", type); *skip = 1; + } else if (front_len > m->front_alloc_len) { + pr_warning("mon_alloc_msg front %d > prealloc %d (%u#%llu)\n", + front_len, m->front_alloc_len, + (unsigned int)con->peer_name.type, + le64_to_cpu(con->peer_name.num)); + ceph_msg_put(m); + m = ceph_msg_new(type, front_len, GFP_NOFS, false); } + return m; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sage@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.16/libceph-do-not-hard-code-max-auth-ticket-len.patch queue-3.16/libceph-gracefully-handle-large-reply-messages-from-the-mon.patch queue-3.16/libceph-set-last_piece-in-ceph_msg_data_pages_cursor_init.patch queue-3.16/libceph-add-process_one_ticket-helper.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