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

    xen/blkback: fix reference counting

to the 3.12-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:
     xen-blkback-fix-reference-counting.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.

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


>From ea5ec76d76da9279d12027c1828544c5ccbe7932 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vegard Nossum <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:00:14 +0200
Subject: xen/blkback: fix reference counting

From: Vegard Nossum <[email protected]>

commit ea5ec76d76da9279d12027c1828544c5ccbe7932 upstream.

If the permission check fails, we drop a reference to the blkif without
having taken it in the first place. The bug was introduced in commit
604c499cbbcc3d5fe5fb8d53306aa0fae1990109 (xen/blkback: Check device
permissions before allowing OP_DISCARD).

Cc: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -887,6 +887,8 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xe
        unsigned long secure;
        struct phys_req preq;
 
+       xen_blkif_get(blkif);
+
        preq.sector_number = req->u.discard.sector_number;
        preq.nr_sects      = req->u.discard.nr_sectors;
 
@@ -899,7 +901,6 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xe
        }
        blkif->st_ds_req++;
 
-       xen_blkif_get(blkif);
        secure = (blkif->vbd.discard_secure &&
                 (req->u.discard.flag & BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE)) ?
                 BLKDEV_DISCARD_SECURE : 0;


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

queue-3.12/xen-blkback-fix-reference-counting.patch
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