From: Mikulas Patocka This patch locks the snapshot when returning status. It fixes a race when it could return an invalid number of free chunks if someone was simultaneously modifying it. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.32-rc3/drivers/md/dm-snap.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.32-rc3.orig/drivers/md/dm-snap.c +++ linux-2.6.32-rc3/drivers/md/dm-snap.c @@ -1147,6 +1147,8 @@ static int snapshot_status(struct dm_tar unsigned sz = 0; struct dm_snapshot *snap = ti->private; + down_write(&snap->lock); + switch (type) { case STATUSTYPE_INFO: if (!snap->valid) @@ -1178,6 +1180,8 @@ static int snapshot_status(struct dm_tar break; } + up_write(&snap->lock); + return 0; }