- Significant dm-crypt CPU scalability performance improvements thanks
to changes that enable effective use of an unbound workqueue across
all available CPUs. A large battery of tests were performed to
validate these changes, summary of results is available here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-February/msg00106.html
- A few additional stable fixes (to DM core, dm-snapshot and dm-mirror)
and a small fix to the dm-space-map-disk.
dm snapshot: fix a possible invalid memory access on unload
When the snapshot target is unloaded, snapshot_dtr() waits until
pending_exceptions_count drops to zero. Then, it destroys the snapshot.
Therefore, the function that decrements pending_exceptions_count
should not touch the snapshot structure after the decrement.
pending_complete() calls free_pending_exception(), which decrements
pending_exceptions_count, and then it performs up_write(&s->lock) and it
calls retry_origin_bios() which dereferences s->origin. These two
memory accesses to the fields of the snapshot may touch the dm_snapshot
struture after it is freed.
This patch moves the call to free_pending_exception() to the end of
pending_complete(), so that the snapshot will not be destroyed while
pending_complete() is in progress.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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