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Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:17:30 +0100
From:	hare@...e.de (Hannes Reinecke)
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] block: fix intermittent dm timeout based oops


Very rarely under stress testing of dm, oopses are occuring as
something tampers with an old stack frame.  This has been traced back
to blk_abort_queue() leaving a timeout_list pointing to the stack.
The reason is that sometimes blk_abort_request() won't delete the
timer (if the request is marked as complete but before the timer has
been removed, a small race window).  Fix this by splicing back from
the ususally empty list to the q->timeout_list.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
---
 block/blk-timeout.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-timeout.c b/block/blk-timeout.c
index bbbdc4b..6213123 100644
--- a/block/blk-timeout.c
+++ b/block/blk-timeout.c
@@ -224,6 +224,12 @@ void blk_abort_queue(struct request_queue *q)
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(rq, tmp, &list, timeout_list)
 		blk_abort_request(rq);
 
+	/*
+	 * Occasionally, blk_abort_request() will return without
+	 * deleting the element from the list
+	 */
+	list_splice(&list, &q->timeout_list);
+
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
 
 }
-- 
1.5.3.2

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