Patch "bcache: fix race of writeback thread starting before complete initialization" 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

bcache: fix race of writeback thread starting before complete initialization

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:
bcache-fix-race-of-writeback-thread-starting-before-complete-initialization.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: Eric Wheeler <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:39:06 -0800
Subject: bcache: fix race of writeback thread starting before complete initialization

From: Eric Wheeler <[email protected]>

commit 07cc6ef8edc47f8b4fc1e276d31127a0a5863d4d upstream.

The bch_writeback_thread might BUG_ON in read_dirty() if dc->sb==BDEV_STATE_DIRTY and bch_sectors_dirty_init has not yet completed its related initialization. This patch downs the dc->writeback_lock until after initialization is complete, thus preventing bch_writeback_thread from proceeding prematurely.

See this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.bcache.devel/3453

---
 drivers/md/bcache/super.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1015,8 +1015,12 @@ int bch_cached_dev_attach(struct cached_
 	 */
 	atomic_set(&dc->count, 1);
 
-	if (bch_cached_dev_writeback_start(dc))
+	/* Block writeback thread, but spawn it */
+	down_write(&dc->writeback_lock);
+	if (bch_cached_dev_writeback_start(dc)) {
+		up_write(&dc->writeback_lock);
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	if (BDEV_STATE(&dc->sb) == BDEV_STATE_DIRTY) {
 		bch_sectors_dirty_init(dc);

@@ -1028,6 +1032,9 @@ int bch_cached_dev_attach(struct cached_
 	bch_cached_dev_run(dc);
 	bcache_device_link(&dc->disk, c, "bdev");
 
+	/* Allow the writeback thread to proceed */
+	up_write(&dc->writeback_lock);
+
 	pr_info("Caching %s as %s on set %pU",
 		bdevname(dc->bdev, buf), dc->disk.disk->disk_name,
 		dc->disk.c->sb.set_uuid);

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

queue-4.4/bcache-cleaned-up-error-handling-around-register_cache.patch queue-4.4/bcache-fix-race-of-writeback-thread-starting-before-complete-initialization.patch queue-4.4/bcache-fix-cache_set_flush-null-pointer-dereference-on-oom.patch