Patch "lightnvm: pblk: use right flag for GC allocation" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

lightnvm: pblk: use right flag for GC allocation

to the 4.14-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:
lightnvm-pblk-use-right-flag-for-gc-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

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

From: Javier Gonz�lez <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:46:02 +0200
Subject: lightnvm: pblk: use right flag for GC allocation

From: Javier Gonz�lez <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 7d327a9ed6c4dca341ebf99012e0a6b80a3050e6 ]

The data buffer for the GC path allocates virtual memory through vmalloc. When this change was introduced, a flag signaling kmalloc'ed memory was wrongly introduced. Use the right flag when creating a bio from this buffer.

---
 drivers/lightnvm/pblk-read.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ int pblk_submit_read_gc(struct pblk *pbl
 
 	data_len = (*secs_to_gc) * geo->sec_size;
 	bio = pblk_bio_map_addr(pblk, data, *secs_to_gc, data_len,
-						PBLK_KMALLOC_META, GFP_KERNEL);
+						PBLK_VMALLOC_META, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (IS_ERR(bio)) {
 		pr_err("pblk: could not allocate GC bio (%lu)\n", PTR_ERR(bio));
 		goto err_free_dma;

@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ int pblk_submit_read_gc(struct pblk *pbl
 	if (ret) {
 		bio_endio(bio);
 		pr_err("pblk: GC read request failed\n");
-		goto err_free_dma;
+		goto err_free_bio;
 	}
 
 	if (!wait_for_completion_io_timeout(&wait,

@@ -541,10 +541,13 @@ int pblk_submit_read_gc(struct pblk *pbl
 	atomic_long_sub(*secs_to_gc, &pblk->inflight_reads);
 #endif
 
+	bio_put(bio);
 out:
 	nvm_dev_dma_free(dev->parent, rqd.meta_list, rqd.dma_meta_list);
 	return NVM_IO_OK;
 
+err_free_bio:
+	bio_put(bio);
 err_free_dma:
 	nvm_dev_dma_free(dev->parent, rqd.meta_list, rqd.dma_meta_list);
 	return NVM_IO_ERR;

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

queue-4.14/lightnvm-pblk-fix-min-size-for-page-mempool.patch queue-4.14/lightnvm-pblk-use-right-flag-for-gc-allocation.patch queue-4.14/lightnvm-pblk-protect-line-bitmap-while-submitting-meta-io.patch queue-4.14/lightnvm-pblk-initialize-debug-stat-counter.patch