Patch "device-dax: fix percpu_ref_exit ordering" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

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

device-dax: fix percpu_ref_exit ordering

to the 4.8-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:
device-dax-fix-percpu_ref_exit-ordering.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 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: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:04:05 -0700
Subject: device-dax: fix percpu_ref_exit ordering

From: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

commit 52e73eb2872c9af6f382b2b22954ca8214397a4e upstream.

We need to wait until the percpu_ref is released before exit. Otherwise, we sometimes lose the race and trigger this new warning that was added in v4.9 (commit a67823c1ed10 "percpu-refcount: init ->confirm_switch member properly"):

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3629 at lib/percpu-refcount.c:107 percpu_ref_exit+0x51/0x60
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff814bf093>] dump_stack+0x85/0xc2
  [<ffffffff810b15db>] __warn+0xcb/0xf0
  [<ffffffff810b170d>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
  [<ffffffff814d70c1>] percpu_ref_exit+0x51/0x60
  [<ffffffffa005706a>] dax_pmem_percpu_exit+0x1a/0x50 [dax_pmem]
  [<ffffffff81615f1f>] devm_action_release+0xf/0x20

---
 drivers/dax/pmem.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ static void dax_pmem_percpu_exit(void *d
 
 	dev_dbg(dax_pmem->dev, "%s\n", __func__);
 	percpu_ref_exit(ref);
-	wait_for_completion(&dax_pmem->cmp);
 }
 
 static void dax_pmem_percpu_kill(void *data)

@@ -54,6 +53,7 @@ static void dax_pmem_percpu_kill(void *d
 
 	dev_dbg(dax_pmem->dev, "%s\n", __func__);
 	percpu_ref_kill(ref);
+	wait_for_completion(&dax_pmem->cmp);
 }
 
 static int dax_pmem_probe(struct device *dev)

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

queue-4.8/device-dax-fix-percpu_ref_exit-ordering.patch