Patch "dm round robin: do not use this_cpu_ptr() without having preemption disabled" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    dm round robin: do not use this_cpu_ptr() without having preemption disabled

to the 4.7-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:
     dm-round-robin-do-not-use-this_cpu_ptr-without-having-preemption-disabled.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 802934b2cfde463b72cc1b9bc1c081895a90be53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 12:29:06 -0400
Subject: dm round robin: do not use this_cpu_ptr() without having preemption disabled

From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

commit 802934b2cfde463b72cc1b9bc1c081895a90be53 upstream.

Use local_irq_save() to disable preemption before calling
this_cpu_ptr().

Reported-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: b0b477c7e0dd ("dm round robin: use percpu 'repeat_count' and 'current_path'")
Suggested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/dm-round-robin.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-round-robin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-round-robin.c
@@ -210,14 +210,17 @@ static struct dm_path *rr_select_path(st
 	struct path_info *pi = NULL;
 	struct dm_path *current_path = NULL;
 
+	local_irq_save(flags);
 	current_path = *this_cpu_ptr(s->current_path);
 	if (current_path) {
 		percpu_counter_dec(&s->repeat_count);
-		if (percpu_counter_read_positive(&s->repeat_count) > 0)
+		if (percpu_counter_read_positive(&s->repeat_count) > 0) {
+			local_irq_restore(flags);
 			return current_path;
+		}
 	}
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&s->lock, flags);
+	spin_lock(&s->lock);
 	if (!list_empty(&s->valid_paths)) {
 		pi = list_entry(s->valid_paths.next, struct path_info, list);
 		list_move_tail(&pi->list, &s->valid_paths);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from snitzer@redhat.com are

queue-4.7/dm-round-robin-do-not-use-this_cpu_ptr-without-having-preemption-disabled.patch