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

    md/bitmap: prevent bitmap_daemon_work running while initialising bitmap

to the 3.3-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-bitmap-prevent-bitmap_daemon_work-running-while-initialising-bitmap.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.3 subdirectory.

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


>From afbaa90b80b1ec66e5137cc3824746bfdf559b18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:05:06 +1000
Subject: md/bitmap: prevent bitmap_daemon_work running while initialising bitmap

From: NeilBrown <[email protected]>

commit afbaa90b80b1ec66e5137cc3824746bfdf559b18 upstream.

If a bitmap is added while the array is active, it is possible
for bitmap_daemon_work to run while the bitmap is being
initialised.
This is particularly a problem if bitmap_daemon_work sees
bitmap->filemap as non-NULL before it has been filled in properly.
So hold bitmap_info.mutex while filling in ->filemap
to prevent problems.

This patch is suitable for any -stable kernel, though it might not
apply cleanly before about 3.1.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/md/bitmap.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
@@ -1819,7 +1819,9 @@ int bitmap_load(struct mddev *mddev)
                 * re-add of a missing device */
                start = mddev->recovery_cp;
 
+       mutex_lock(&mddev->bitmap_info.mutex);
        err = bitmap_init_from_disk(bitmap, start);
+       mutex_unlock(&mddev->bitmap_info.mutex);
 
        if (err)
                goto out;


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

queue-3.3/md-raid1-raid10-fix-calculation-of-vcnt-when-processing-error-recovery.patch
queue-3.3/md-bitmap-prevent-bitmap_daemon_work-running-while-initialising-bitmap.patch
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