FAILED: patch "[PATCH] dm-verity: avoid double increment of &use_bh_wq_enabled" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 72e9ec2fe32b00994f41719cf77423fca67d48b2
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026072020-agent-amiss-f82c@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 72e9ec2fe32b00994f41719cf77423fca67d48b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 21:33:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dm-verity: avoid double increment of &use_bh_wq_enabled

verity_parse_opt_args is called twice, first with the only_modifier_opts,
first with only_modifier_opts == true and then with only_modifier_opts ==
false. Thus, the static branch &use_bh_wq_enabled was incremented twice
and the destructor verity_dtr would only decrement it once.

Fix tihs bug by only incrementing it on the first call, on the second
call, when v->use_bh_wq is true, do nothing.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: df326e7a0699 ("dm verity: allow optional args to alter primary args handling")

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
index 9a9847f94c46..adfda1fdab6a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
@@ -1262,6 +1262,8 @@ static int verity_parse_opt_args(struct dm_arg_set *as, struct dm_verity *v,
 			continue;
 
 		} else if (!strcasecmp(arg_name, DM_VERITY_OPT_TASKLET_VERIFY)) {
+			if (v->use_bh_wq)
+				continue;
 			v->use_bh_wq = true;
 			static_branch_inc(&use_bh_wq_enabled);
 			continue;