This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
UBI: block: Add missing cache flushes
to the 4.0-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:
ubi-block-add-missing-cache-flushes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 98fb1ffd8154890d7051750e61ff5548c3ee2ab2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 09:30:53 -0300
Subject: UBI: block: Add missing cache flushes
From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 98fb1ffd8154890d7051750e61ff5548c3ee2ab2 upstream.
Block drivers are responsible for calling flush_dcache_page() on each
BIO request. This operation keeps the I$ coherent with the D$ on
architectures that don't have hardware coherency support. Without this
flush, random crashes are seen when executing user programs from an ext4
filesystem backed by a ubiblock device.
This patch is based on the change implemented in commit 2d4dc890b5c8
("block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a
request's pages").
Fixes: 9d54c8a33eec ("UBI: R/O block driver on top of UBI volumes")
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mtd/ubi/block.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/block.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/block.c
@@ -310,6 +310,8 @@ static void ubiblock_do_work(struct work
blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req, pdu->usgl.sg);
ret = ubiblock_read(pdu);
+ rq_flush_dcache_pages(req);
+
blk_mq_end_request(req, ret);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cernekee@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.0/ubi-block-add-missing-cache-flushes.patch
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