Patch "md: fix a race condition for flush request handling" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

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

md: fix a race condition for flush request handling

to the 4.13-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:
md-fix-a-race-condition-for-flush-request-handling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.

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

From: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:55:28 -0700
Subject: md: fix a race condition for flush request handling

From: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>

commit 79bf31a3b2a7ca467cfec8ff97d359a77065d01f upstream.

md_submit_flush_data calls pers->make_request, which missed the suspend check. Fix it with the new md_handle_request API.

Fix: cc27b0c78c79(md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start())

---
 drivers/md/md.c |   14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

@@ -439,16 +439,22 @@ static void md_submit_flush_data(struct
 	struct mddev *mddev = container_of(ws, struct mddev, flush_work);
 	struct bio *bio = mddev->flush_bio;
 
+	/*
+	 * must reset flush_bio before calling into md_handle_request to avoid a
+	 * deadlock, because other bios passed md_handle_request suspend check
+	 * could wait for this and below md_handle_request could wait for those
+	 * bios because of suspend check
+	 */
+	mddev->flush_bio = NULL;
+	wake_up(&mddev->sb_wait);
+
 	if (bio->bi_iter.bi_size == 0)
 		/* an empty barrier - all done */
 		bio_endio(bio);
 	else {
 		bio->bi_opf &= ~REQ_PREFLUSH;
-		mddev->pers->make_request(mddev, bio);
+		md_handle_request(mddev, bio);
 	}
-
-	mddev->flush_bio = NULL;
-	wake_up(&mddev->sb_wait);
 }
 
 void md_flush_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)

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

queue-4.13/md-separate-request-handling.patch queue-4.13/md-raid5-preserve-stripe_on_unplug_list-in-break_stripe_batch_list.patch queue-4.13/md-fix-a-race-condition-for-flush-request-handling.patch queue-4.13/md-raid5-fix-a-race-condition-in-stripe-batch.patch