From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46372 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753708AbeDVN6t (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2018 09:58:49 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Mikulas Patocka , Jens Axboe Subject: [PATCH 4.16 083/196] block: use 32-bit blk_status_t on Alpha Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:51:43 +0200 Message-Id: <20180422135108.598605082@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180422135104.278511750@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180422135104.278511750@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mikulas Patocka commit 6e2fb22103b99c26ae30a46512abe75526d8e4c9 upstream. Early alpha processors cannot write a single byte or word; they read 8 bytes, modify the value in registers and write back 8 bytes. The type blk_status_t is defined as one byte, it is often written asynchronously by I/O completion routines, this asynchronous modification can corrupt content of nearby bytes if these nearby bytes can be written simultaneously by another CPU. - one example of such corruption is the structure dm_io where "blk_status_t status" is written by an asynchronous completion routine and "atomic_t io_count" is modified synchronously - another example is the structure dm_buffer where "unsigned hold_count" is modified synchronously from process context and "blk_status_t write_error" is modified asynchronously from bio completion routine This patch fixes the bug by changing the type blk_status_t to 32 bits if we are on Alpha and if we are compiling for a processor that doesn't have the byte-word-extension. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.13+ Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/blk_types.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/blk_types.h +++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h @@ -20,8 +20,13 @@ typedef void (bio_end_io_t) (struct bio /* * Block error status values. See block/blk-core:blk_errors for the details. + * Alpha cannot write a byte atomically, so we need to use 32-bit value. */ +#if defined(CONFIG_ALPHA) && !defined(__alpha_bwx__) +typedef u32 __bitwise blk_status_t; +#else typedef u8 __bitwise blk_status_t; +#endif #define BLK_STS_OK 0 #define BLK_STS_NOTSUPP ((__force blk_status_t)1) #define BLK_STS_TIMEOUT ((__force blk_status_t)2)