From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
Chris Wedgwood <reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org>,
Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>,
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@gmail.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rbranco@la.checkpoint.com>,
Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net>, Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: [patch 53/60] ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangs
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:14:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090610002351.918798530@blue.kroah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090610032135.GA19346@kroah.com>
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-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
upstream commit: e7c9e3e99adf6c49c5d593a51375916acc039d1e
Smatch (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/) complains about the locking in
ext4_mb_add_n_trim() from fs/ext4/mballoc.c
4438 list_for_each_entry_rcu(tmp_pa, &lg->lg_prealloc_list[order],
4439 pa_inode_list) {
4440 spin_lock(&tmp_pa->pa_lock);
4441 if (tmp_pa->pa_deleted) {
4442 spin_unlock(&pa->pa_lock);
4443 continue;
4444 }
Brown paper bag time...
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -4532,7 +4532,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_add_n_trim(struct ex
pa_inode_list) {
spin_lock(&tmp_pa->pa_lock);
if (tmp_pa->pa_deleted) {
- spin_unlock(&pa->pa_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&tmp_pa->pa_lock);
continue;
}
if (!added && pa->pa_free < tmp_pa->pa_free) {
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-10 3:48 UTC|newest]
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2009-06-10 0:13 ` [patch 04/60] sparc64: Fix smp_callin() locking Greg KH
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2009-06-10 0:13 ` [patch 08/60] sparc64: Fix crash with /proc/iomem Greg KH
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2009-06-10 0:13 ` [patch 15/60] net: fix skb_seq_read returning wrong offset/length for page frag data Greg KH
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2009-06-10 0:13 ` [patch 21/60] cpuidle: make AMC C1E work in processor_idle Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:13 ` [patch 22/60] drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c: fix array overindexing check Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:13 ` [patch 23/60] e1000: add missing length check to e1000 receive routine Greg KH
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2009-06-10 0:13 ` [patch 26/60] mm: account for MAP_SHARED mappings using VM_MAYSHARE and not VM_SHARED in hugetlbfs Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:13 ` [patch 27/60] random: make get_random_int() more random Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:13 ` [patch 28/60] Avoid ICE in get_random_int() with gcc-3.4.5 Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:13 ` [patch 29/60] SELinux: BUG in SELinux compat_net code Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:13 ` [patch 30/60] sound: usb-audio: make the MotU Fastlane work again Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:13 ` [patch 31/60] USB: isp1760: urb_dequeue doesnt always find the urbs Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 32/60] x86: ignore VM_LOCKED when determining if hugetlb-backed page tables can be shared or not Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 33/60] x86/pci: fix mmconfig detection with 32bit near 4g Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 34/60] V4L/DVB (10943): cx88: Prevent general protection fault on rmmod Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 35/60] x86: fix DMI on EFI Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 36/60] mac80211: pid, fix memory corruption Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 37/60] ext4: fix ext4_free_inode() vs. ext4_claim_inode() race Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 38/60] ext4: fix header check in ext4_ext_search_right() for deep extent trees Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 39/60] ext4: Print the find_group_flex() warning only once Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 40/60] ext4: fix bogus BUG_ONs in in mballoc code Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 41/60] ext4: fix bb_prealloc_list corruption due to wrong group locking Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 42/60] ext4: dont inherit inappropriate inode flags from parent Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 43/60] ext4: tighten restrictions on inode flags Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 44/60] ext4: return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inode Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 45/60] ext4: Add fine print for the 32000 subdirectory limit Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 46/60] ext4: add EXT4_IOC_ALLOC_DA_BLKS ioctl Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 47/60] ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on close Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 48/60] ext4: Automatically allocate delay allocated blocks on rename Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 49/60] ext4: Fix discard of inode prealloc space with delayed allocation Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 50/60] ext4: Check for an valid i_mode when reading the inode from disk Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 51/60] jbd2: Update locking coments Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 52/60] ext4: fix typo which causes a memory leak on error path Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 54/60] ext4: really print the find_group_flex fallback warning only once Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 55/60] ext4: Fix softlockup caused by illegal i_file_acl value in on-disk inode Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 56/60] ext4: Ignore i_file_acl_high unless EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_64BIT is present Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 57/60] ext4: Fix sub-block zeroing for writes into preallocated extents Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 58/60] ext4: Use a fake block number for delayed new buffer_head Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 59/60] ext4: Clear the unwritten buffer_head flag after the extent is initialized Greg KH
2009-06-10 0:14 ` [patch 60/60] ext4: Fix race in ext4_inode_info.i_cached_extent Greg KH
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