3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> commit 4b5060ddae2b03c5387321fafc089d242225697a upstream. If two threads call bitmap_unplug at the same time, then one might schedule all the writes, and the other might decide that it doesn't need to wait. But really it does. It rarely hurts to wait when it isn't absolutely necessary, and the current code doesn't really focus on 'absolutely necessary' anyway. So just wait always. This can potentially lead to data corruption if a crash happens at an awkward time and data was written before the bitmap was updated. It is very unlikely, but this should go to -stable just to be safe. Appropriate for any -stable. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bitmap.c | 16 ++++++---------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c +++ b/drivers/md/bitmap.c @@ -883,7 +883,6 @@ void bitmap_unplug(struct bitmap *bitmap { unsigned long i; int dirty, need_write; - int wait = 0; if (!bitmap || !bitmap->storage.filemap || test_bit(BITMAP_STALE, &bitmap->flags)) @@ -901,16 +900,13 @@ void bitmap_unplug(struct bitmap *bitmap clear_page_attr(bitmap, i, BITMAP_PAGE_PENDING); write_page(bitmap, bitmap->storage.filemap[i], 0); } - if (dirty) - wait = 1; - } - if (wait) { /* if any writes were performed, we need to wait on them */ - if (bitmap->storage.file) - wait_event(bitmap->write_wait, - atomic_read(&bitmap->pending_writes)==0); - else - md_super_wait(bitmap->mddev); } + if (bitmap->storage.file) + wait_event(bitmap->write_wait, + atomic_read(&bitmap->pending_writes)==0); + else + md_super_wait(bitmap->mddev); + if (test_bit(BITMAP_WRITE_ERROR, &bitmap->flags)) bitmap_file_kick(bitmap); } -- 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