Patch "loop: fix LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN hang" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    loop: fix LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN hang

to the 4.4-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:
     loop-fix-lo_flags_partscan-hang.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 e02898b423802b1f3a3aaa7f16e896da069ba8f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 10:42:38 -0800
Subject: loop: fix LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN hang

From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>

commit e02898b423802b1f3a3aaa7f16e896da069ba8f7 upstream.

loop_reread_partitions() needs to do I/O, but we just froze the queue,
so we end up waiting forever. This can easily be reproduced with losetup
-P. Fix it by moving the reread to after we unfreeze the queue.

Fixes: ecdd09597a57 ("block/loop: fix race between I/O and set_status")
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/block/loop.c |   15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1153,13 +1153,6 @@ loop_set_status(struct loop_device *lo,
 	     (info->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR))
 		lo->lo_flags ^= LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR;
 
-	if ((info->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN) &&
-	     !(lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN)) {
-		lo->lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN;
-		lo->lo_disk->flags &= ~GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN;
-		loop_reread_partitions(lo, lo->lo_device);
-	}
-
 	lo->lo_encrypt_key_size = info->lo_encrypt_key_size;
 	lo->lo_init[0] = info->lo_init[0];
 	lo->lo_init[1] = info->lo_init[1];
@@ -1174,6 +1167,14 @@ loop_set_status(struct loop_device *lo,
 
  exit:
 	blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(lo->lo_queue);
+
+	if (!err && (info->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN) &&
+	     !(lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN)) {
+		lo->lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN;
+		lo->lo_disk->flags &= ~GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN;
+		loop_reread_partitions(lo, lo->lo_device);
+	}
+
 	return err;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from osandov@fb.com are

queue-4.4/loop-fix-lo_flags_partscan-hang.patch