Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933698AbcKILH1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2016 06:07:27 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54712 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932467AbcKILHR (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2016 06:07:17 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams Subject: [PATCH 4.8 026/138] device-dax: fix percpu_ref_exit ordering Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 11:45:09 +0100 Message-Id: <20161109102845.932864503@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.10.2 In-Reply-To: <20161109102844.808685475@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20161109102844.808685475@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1606 Lines: 50 4.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Williams commit 52e73eb2872c9af6f382b2b22954ca8214397a4e upstream. We need to wait until the percpu_ref is released before exit. Otherwise, we sometimes lose the race and trigger this new warning that was added in v4.9 (commit a67823c1ed10 "percpu-refcount: init ->confirm_switch member properly"): WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3629 at lib/percpu-refcount.c:107 percpu_ref_exit+0x51/0x60 [..] Call Trace: [] dump_stack+0x85/0xc2 [] __warn+0xcb/0xf0 [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20 [] percpu_ref_exit+0x51/0x60 [] dax_pmem_percpu_exit+0x1a/0x50 [dax_pmem] [] devm_action_release+0xf/0x20 Fixes: ab68f2622136 ("/dev/dax, pmem: direct access to persistent memory") Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/dax/pmem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/dax/pmem.c +++ b/drivers/dax/pmem.c @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ static void dax_pmem_percpu_exit(void *d dev_dbg(dax_pmem->dev, "%s\n", __func__); percpu_ref_exit(ref); - wait_for_completion(&dax_pmem->cmp); } static void dax_pmem_percpu_kill(void *data) @@ -54,6 +53,7 @@ static void dax_pmem_percpu_kill(void *d dev_dbg(dax_pmem->dev, "%s\n", __func__); percpu_ref_kill(ref); + wait_for_completion(&dax_pmem->cmp); } static int dax_pmem_probe(struct device *dev)