This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled IB/qib: Correct reference counting in debugfs qp_stats 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: ib-qib-correct-reference-counting-in-debugfs-qp_stats.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 85cbb7c728bf39c45a9789b88c9471c0d7a58b0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 08:32:19 -0400 Subject: IB/qib: Correct reference counting in debugfs qp_stats From: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@xxxxxxxxx> commit 85cbb7c728bf39c45a9789b88c9471c0d7a58b0e upstream. This particular reference count is not needed with the rcu protection, and the current code leaks a reference count, causing a hang in qib_qp_destroy(). Reviewed-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_debugfs.c | 3 ++- drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_qp.c | 8 -------- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_debugfs.c @@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ static void *_qp_stats_seq_start(struct struct qib_qp_iter *iter; loff_t n = *pos; + rcu_read_lock(); iter = qib_qp_iter_init(s->private); if (!iter) return NULL; @@ -224,7 +225,7 @@ static void *_qp_stats_seq_next(struct s static void _qp_stats_seq_stop(struct seq_file *s, void *iter_ptr) { - /* nothing for now */ + rcu_read_unlock(); } static int _qp_stats_seq_show(struct seq_file *s, void *iter_ptr) --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_qp.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_qp.c @@ -1324,7 +1324,6 @@ int qib_qp_iter_next(struct qib_qp_iter struct qib_qp *pqp = iter->qp; struct qib_qp *qp; - rcu_read_lock(); for (; n < dev->qp_table_size; n++) { if (pqp) qp = rcu_dereference(pqp->next); @@ -1332,18 +1331,11 @@ int qib_qp_iter_next(struct qib_qp_iter qp = rcu_dereference(dev->qp_table[n]); pqp = qp; if (qp) { - if (iter->qp) - atomic_dec(&iter->qp->refcount); - atomic_inc(&qp->refcount); - rcu_read_unlock(); iter->qp = qp; iter->n = n; return 0; } } - rcu_read_unlock(); - if (iter->qp) - atomic_dec(&iter->qp->refcount); return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mike.marciniszyn@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/ib-qib-correct-reference-counting-in-debugfs-qp_stats.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