Patch "btrfs: Fix flush bio leak" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

Patch "btrfs: Fix flush bio leak" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    btrfs: Fix flush bio leak

to the 4.14-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:
     btrfs-fix-flush-bio-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018
From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 13:50:07 +0200
Subject: btrfs: Fix flush bio leak

From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>


[ Upstream commit beed9263f4000c48a5c48912f26576f6fa091181 ]

Commit e0ae99941423 ("btrfs: preallocate device flush bio") reworked
the way the flush bio is allocated and used. Concretely it allocates
the bio in __alloc_device and then re-uses it multiple times with a
very simple endio routine that just calls complete() without consuming
a reference. Allocated bios by default come with a ref count of 1,
which is then consumed by the endio routine (or not, in which case they
should be bio_put by the caller). The way the impleementation works now
is that the flush bio has a refcount of 2 and we only ever bio_put it
once, leaving it to hang indefinitely. Fix this by removing the extra
bio_get in __alloc_device.

Fixes: e0ae99941423 ("btrfs: preallocate device flush bio")
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/btrfs/volumes.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -236,7 +236,6 @@ static struct btrfs_device *__alloc_devi
 		kfree(dev);
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	}
-	bio_get(dev->flush_bio);
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->dev_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->dev_alloc_list);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nborisov@suse.com are

queue-4.14/btrfs-fix-flush-bio-leak.patch