Patch "block: fix ext_dev_lock lockdep report" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

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

block: fix ext_dev_lock lockdep report

to the 4.0-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:
block-fix-ext_dev_lock-lockdep-report.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:47:14 -0400
Subject: block: fix ext_dev_lock lockdep report

From: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

commit 4d66e5e9b6d720d8463e11d027bd4ad91c8b1318 upstream.

=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
4.1.0-rc7+ #217 Tainted: G O
---------------------------------
inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage. swapper/6/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
(ext_devt_lock){+.?...}, at: [<ffffffff8143a60c>] blk_free_devt+0x3c/0x70
{SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at:

   [<ffffffff810bf6b1>] __lock_acquire+0x461/0x1e70
   [<ffffffff810c1947>] lock_acquire+0xb7/0x290
   [<ffffffff818ac3a8>] _raw_spin_lock+0x38/0x50
   [<ffffffff8143a07d>] blk_alloc_devt+0x6d/0xd0  <-- take the lock in process context
[..]
  [<ffffffff810bf64e>] __lock_acquire+0x3fe/0x1e70
  [<ffffffff810c00ad>] ? __lock_acquire+0xe5d/0x1e70
  [<ffffffff810c1947>] lock_acquire+0xb7/0x290
  [<ffffffff8143a60c>] ? blk_free_devt+0x3c/0x70
  [<ffffffff818ac3a8>] _raw_spin_lock+0x38/0x50
  [<ffffffff8143a60c>] ? blk_free_devt+0x3c/0x70
  [<ffffffff8143a60c>] blk_free_devt+0x3c/0x70    <-- take the lock in softirq
  [<ffffffff8143bfec>] part_release+0x1c/0x50
  [<ffffffff8158edf6>] device_release+0x36/0xb0
  [<ffffffff8145ac2b>] kobject_cleanup+0x7b/0x1a0
  [<ffffffff8145aad0>] kobject_put+0x30/0x70
  [<ffffffff8158f147>] put_device+0x17/0x20
  [<ffffffff8143c29c>] delete_partition_rcu_cb+0x16c/0x180
  [<ffffffff8143c130>] ? read_dev_sector+0xa0/0xa0
  [<ffffffff810e0e0f>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x2ff/0xa90
  [<ffffffff810e0dcf>] ? rcu_process_callbacks+0x2bf/0xa90
  [<ffffffff81067e2e>] __do_softirq+0xde/0x600

Neil sees this in his tests and it also triggers on pmem driver unbind for the libnvdimm tests. This fix is on top of an initial fix by Keith for incorrect usage of mutex_lock() in this path: 2da78092dda1 "block:
Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime". Both this and 2da78092dda1 are candidates for -stable.

---
 block/genhd.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

@@ -422,9 +422,9 @@ int blk_alloc_devt(struct hd_struct *par
 	/* allocate ext devt */
 	idr_preload(GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	spin_lock(&ext_devt_lock);
+	spin_lock_bh(&ext_devt_lock);
 	idx = idr_alloc(&ext_devt_idr, part, 0, NR_EXT_DEVT, GFP_NOWAIT);
-	spin_unlock(&ext_devt_lock);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&ext_devt_lock);
 
 	idr_preload_end();
 	if (idx < 0)

@@ -449,9 +449,9 @@ void blk_free_devt(dev_t devt)
 		return;
 
 	if (MAJOR(devt) == BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR) {
-		spin_lock(&ext_devt_lock);
+		spin_lock_bh(&ext_devt_lock);
 		idr_remove(&ext_devt_idr, blk_mangle_minor(MINOR(devt)));
-		spin_unlock(&ext_devt_lock);
+		spin_unlock_bh(&ext_devt_lock);
 	}
 }
 

@@ -691,13 +691,13 @@ struct gendisk *get_gendisk(dev_t devt,
 	} else {
 		struct hd_struct *part;
 
-		spin_lock(&ext_devt_lock);
+		spin_lock_bh(&ext_devt_lock);
 		part = idr_find(&ext_devt_idr, blk_mangle_minor(MINOR(devt)));
 		if (part && get_disk(part_to_disk(part))) {
 			*partno = part->partno;
 			disk = part_to_disk(part);
 		}
-		spin_unlock(&ext_devt_lock);
+		spin_unlock_bh(&ext_devt_lock);
 	}
 
 	return disk;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.0/block-fix-ext_dev_lock-lockdep-report.patch queue-4.0/block-discard-bdi_unregister-in-favour-of-bdi_destroy.patch --
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