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Date:	Fri,  1 Mar 2013 11:44:20 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: [ 35/77] xen-blkfront: drop the use of llist_for_each_entry_safe

3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>

commit f84adf4921ae3115502f44ff467b04bf2f88cf04 upstream.

Replace llist_for_each_entry_safe with a while loop.

llist_for_each_entry_safe can trigger a bug in GCC 4.1, so it's best
to remove it and use a while loop and do the deletion manually.

Specifically this bug can be triggered by hot-unplugging a disk, either
by doing xm block-detach or by save/restore cycle.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff0
IP: [<ffffffffa0047223>] blkif_free+0x63/0x130 [xen_blkfront]
The crash call trace is:
	...
bad_area_nosemaphore+0x13/0x20
do_page_fault+0x25e/0x4b0
page_fault+0x25/0x30
? blkif_free+0x63/0x130 [xen_blkfront]
blkfront_resume+0x46/0xa0 [xen_blkfront]
xenbus_dev_resume+0x6c/0x140
pm_op+0x192/0x1b0
device_resume+0x82/0x1e0
dpm_resume+0xc9/0x1a0
dpm_resume_end+0x15/0x30
do_suspend+0x117/0x1e0

When drilling down to the assembler code, on newer GCC it does
.L29:
        cmpq    $-16, %r12      #, persistent_gnt check
        je      .L30    	#, out of the loop
.L25:
	... code in the loop
        testq   %r13, %r13      # n
        je      .L29    	#, back to the top of the loop
        cmpq    $-16, %r12      #, persistent_gnt check
        movq    16(%r12), %r13  # <variable>.node.next, n
        jne     .L25    	#,	back to the top of the loop
.L30:

While on GCC 4.1, it is:
L78:
	... code in the loop
	testq   %r13, %r13      # n
        je      .L78    #,	back to the top of the loop
        movq    16(%rbx), %r13  # <variable>.node.next, n
        jmp     .L78    #,	back to the top of the loop

Which basically means that the exit loop condition instead of
being:

	&(pos)->member != NULL;

is:
	;

which makes the loop unbound.

Since xen-blkfront is the only user of the llist_for_each_entry_safe
macro remove it from llist.h.

Orabug: 16263164
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |   13 ++++++++++---
 include/linux/llist.h        |   25 -------------------------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ static void blkif_restart_queue(struct w
 static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *info, int suspend)
 {
 	struct llist_node *all_gnts;
-	struct grant *persistent_gnt;
+	struct grant *persistent_gnt, *tmp;
 	struct llist_node *n;
 
 	/* Prevent new requests being issued until we fix things up. */
@@ -805,10 +805,17 @@ static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_i
 	/* Remove all persistent grants */
 	if (info->persistent_gnts_c) {
 		all_gnts = llist_del_all(&info->persistent_gnts);
-		llist_for_each_entry_safe(persistent_gnt, n, all_gnts, node) {
+		persistent_gnt = llist_entry(all_gnts, typeof(*(persistent_gnt)), node);
+		while (persistent_gnt) {
 			gnttab_end_foreign_access(persistent_gnt->gref, 0, 0UL);
 			__free_page(pfn_to_page(persistent_gnt->pfn));
-			kfree(persistent_gnt);
+			tmp = persistent_gnt;
+			n = persistent_gnt->node.next;
+			if (n)
+				persistent_gnt = llist_entry(n, typeof(*(persistent_gnt)), node);
+			else
+				persistent_gnt = NULL;
+			kfree(tmp);
 		}
 		info->persistent_gnts_c = 0;
 	}
--- a/include/linux/llist.h
+++ b/include/linux/llist.h
@@ -125,31 +125,6 @@ static inline void init_llist_head(struc
 	     (pos) = llist_entry((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member))
 
 /**
- * llist_for_each_entry_safe - iterate safely against remove over some entries
- * of lock-less list of given type.
- * @pos:	the type * to use as a loop cursor.
- * @n:		another type * to use as a temporary storage.
- * @node:	the fist entry of deleted list entries.
- * @member:	the name of the llist_node with the struct.
- *
- * In general, some entries of the lock-less list can be traversed
- * safely only after being removed from list, so start with an entry
- * instead of list head. This variant allows removal of entries
- * as we iterate.
- *
- * If being used on entries deleted from lock-less list directly, the
- * traverse order is from the newest to the oldest added entry.  If
- * you want to traverse from the oldest to the newest, you must
- * reverse the order by yourself before traversing.
- */
-#define llist_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, node, member)		\
-	for ((pos) = llist_entry((node), typeof(*(pos)), member),	\
-	     (n) = (pos)->member.next;					\
-	     &(pos)->member != NULL;					\
-	     (pos) = llist_entry(n, typeof(*(pos)), member),		\
-	     (n) = (&(pos)->member != NULL) ? (pos)->member.next : NULL)
-
-/**
  * llist_empty - tests whether a lock-less list is empty
  * @head:	the list to test
  *


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