Patch "dm log writes: move IO accounting earlier to fix error path" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

dm log writes: move IO accounting earlier to fix error path

to the 4.4-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:
dm-log-writes-move-io-accounting-earlier-to-fix-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:11:53 -0400
Subject: dm log writes: move IO accounting earlier to fix error path

From: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>

commit a5d60783df61fbb67b7596b8a0f6b4b2e05251d5 upstream.

Move log_one_block()'s atomic_inc(&lc->io_blocks) before bio_alloc() to fix a bug that the target hangs if bio_alloc() fails. The error path does put_io_block(lc), so atomic_inc(&lc->io_blocks) must occur before invoking the error path to avoid underflow of lc->io_blocks.

---
 drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -258,12 +258,12 @@ static int log_one_block(struct log_writ
 		goto out;
 	sector++;
 
+	atomic_inc(&lc->io_blocks);
 	bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, block->vec_cnt);
 	if (!bio) {
 		DMERR("Couldn't alloc log bio");
 		goto error;
 	}
-	atomic_inc(&lc->io_blocks);
 	bio->bi_iter.bi_size = 0;
 	bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = sector;
 	bio->bi_bdev = lc->logdev->bdev;

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

queue-4.4/dm-crypt-fix-error-with-too-large-bios.patch queue-4.4/dm-log-writes-move-io-accounting-earlier-to-fix-error-path.patch