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

    dm thin: grab a virtual cell before looking up the mapping

to the 3.14-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:
     dm-thin-grab-a-virtual-cell-before-looking-up-the-mapping.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

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


>From c822ed967cba38505713d59ed40a114386ef6c01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Thornber <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:41:09 +0100
Subject: dm thin: grab a virtual cell before looking up the mapping

From: Joe Thornber <[email protected]>

commit c822ed967cba38505713d59ed40a114386ef6c01 upstream.

Avoids normal IO racing with discard.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/md/dm-thin.c |   16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -1704,6 +1704,14 @@ static int thin_bio_map(struct dm_target
                return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * We must hold the virtual cell before doing the lookup, otherwise
+        * there's a race with discard.
+        */
+       build_virtual_key(tc->td, block, &key);
+       if (dm_bio_detain(tc->pool->prison, &key, bio, &cell1, &cell_result))
+               return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED;
+
        r = dm_thin_find_block(td, block, 0, &result);
 
        /*
@@ -1727,13 +1735,10 @@ static int thin_bio_map(struct dm_target
                         * shared flag will be set in their case.
                         */
                        thin_defer_bio(tc, bio);
+                       cell_defer_no_holder_no_free(tc, &cell1);
                        return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED;
                }
 
-               build_virtual_key(tc->td, block, &key);
-               if (dm_bio_detain(tc->pool->prison, &key, bio, &cell1, 
&cell_result))
-                       return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED;
-
                build_data_key(tc->td, result.block, &key);
                if (dm_bio_detain(tc->pool->prison, &key, bio, &cell2, 
&cell_result)) {
                        cell_defer_no_holder_no_free(tc, &cell1);
@@ -1754,6 +1759,7 @@ static int thin_bio_map(struct dm_target
                         * of doing so.
                         */
                        handle_unserviceable_bio(tc->pool, bio);
+                       cell_defer_no_holder_no_free(tc, &cell1);
                        return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED;
                }
                /* fall through */
@@ -1764,6 +1770,7 @@ static int thin_bio_map(struct dm_target
                 * provide the hint to load the metadata into cache.
                 */
                thin_defer_bio(tc, bio);
+               cell_defer_no_holder_no_free(tc, &cell1);
                return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED;
 
        default:
@@ -1773,6 +1780,7 @@ static int thin_bio_map(struct dm_target
                 * pool is switched to fail-io mode.
                 */
                bio_io_error(bio);
+               cell_defer_no_holder_no_free(tc, &cell1);
                return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED;
        }
 }


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

queue-3.14/dm-thin-grab-a-virtual-cell-before-looking-up-the-mapping.patch
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