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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>,
	linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, miaoxie@huawei.com,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.19 06/12] staging: erofs: fix race when the managed cache is enabled
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:04:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190225150449.GD16015@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190220091854.19242-7-gaoxiang25@huawei.com>

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 05:18:48PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> commit 51232df5e4b268936beccde5248f312a316800be upstream.
> 
> When the managed cache is enabled, the last reference count
> of a workgroup must be used for its workstation.
> 
> Otherwise, it could lead to incorrect (un)freezes in
> the reclaim path, and it would be harmful.
> 
> A typical race as follows:
> 
> Thread 1 (In the reclaim path)  Thread 2
> workgroup_freeze(grp, 1)                                refcnt = 1
> ...
> workgroup_unfreeze(grp, 1)                              refcnt = 1
>                                 workgroup_get(grp)      refcnt = 2 (x)
> workgroup_put(grp)                                      refcnt = 1 (x)
>                                 ...unexpected behaviors
> 
> * grp is detached but still used, which violates cache-managed
>   freeze constraint.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
> 
> Conflicts:
> 	drivers/staging/erofs/utils.c
> Updates:
> 	include/linux/xarray.h:
> 		add xa_untag_pointer,xa_tag_pointer,xa_pointer_tag
> 		from upstream 3159f943aafd in order to reduce
> 		conflicts.

No, sorry, I don't want to add xarray.h to 4.19.y, that's crazy.

And even if we did, you do not slip it in as part of a different patch,
it should come in as its own patch, with the same git commit id that it
landed in 4.20 with.

Please fix this up...

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-25 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-20  9:18 [PATCH for-4.19 00/12] erofs fixes for linux-4.19.y Gao Xiang
2019-02-20  9:18 ` [PATCH for-4.19 01/12] staging: erofs: fix a bug when appling cache strategy Gao Xiang
2019-02-20  9:18 ` [PATCH for-4.19 02/12] staging: erofs: complete error handing of z_erofs_do_read_page Gao Xiang
2019-02-25 14:59   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-02-25 15:04     ` Gao Xiang
2019-02-20  9:18 ` [PATCH for-4.19 03/12] staging: erofs: replace BUG_ON with DBG_BUGON in data.c Gao Xiang
2019-02-20  9:18 ` [PATCH for-4.19 04/12] staging: erofs: drop multiref support temporarily Gao Xiang
2019-02-20  9:18 ` [PATCH for-4.19 05/12] staging: erofs: remove the redundant d_rehash() for the root dentry Gao Xiang
2019-02-20  9:18 ` [PATCH for-4.19 06/12] staging: erofs: fix race when the managed cache is enabled Gao Xiang
2019-02-25 15:04   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-02-25 15:07     ` Gao Xiang
2019-02-25 15:51       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-02-25 15:57         ` Gao Xiang
2019-02-25 17:58         ` [PATCH for-4.19 1/2] xarray: Replace exceptional entries Gao Xiang
2019-02-25 17:58           ` [PATCH for-4.19 2/2] staging: erofs: fix race when the managed cache is enabled Gao Xiang
2019-02-25 18:27           ` [PATCH for-4.19 1/2] xarray: Replace exceptional entries Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-26  1:21             ` Gao Xiang
2019-02-26  5:14             ` [PATCH v2 " Gao Xiang
2019-02-26  5:14               ` [PATCH v2 for-4.19 2/2] staging: erofs: fix race when the managed cache is enabled Gao Xiang
2019-02-26 12:43               ` [PATCH v2 for-4.19 1/2] xarray: Replace exceptional entries Gao Xiang
2019-03-04  5:13                 ` Gao Xiang
2019-03-13  9:18                   ` Gao Xiang
2019-02-25 15:25     ` [PATCH for-4.19 06/12] staging: erofs: fix race when the managed cache is enabled Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-25 15:52       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-02-25 16:04         ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-20  9:18 ` [PATCH for-4.19 07/12] staging: erofs: atomic_cond_read_relaxed on ref-locked workgroup Gao Xiang
2019-02-20  9:18 ` [PATCH for-4.19 08/12] staging: erofs: fix `erofs_workgroup_{try_to_freeze, unfreeze}' Gao Xiang
2019-02-20  9:18 ` [PATCH for-4.19 09/12] staging: erofs: add a full barrier in erofs_workgroup_unfreeze Gao Xiang
2019-02-20  9:18 ` [PATCH for-4.19 10/12] staging: erofs: {dir,inode,super}.c: rectify BUG_ONs Gao Xiang
2019-02-20  9:18 ` [PATCH for-4.19 11/12] staging: erofs: unzip_{pagevec.h,vle.c}: " Gao Xiang
2019-02-20  9:18 ` [PATCH for-4.19 12/12] staging: erofs: unzip_vle_lz4.c,utils.c: " Gao Xiang
2019-02-22  8:35 ` [PATCH for-4.19 00/12] erofs fixes for linux-4.19.y Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-02-22  9:03   ` Gao Xiang
2019-02-25 15:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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