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md: Close race when setting 'action' to 'idle'.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:51:27 +0000 (19:51 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:03:35 +0000 (17:03 -0700)
commitad48fa9ae00009037975d535245dc8a63e997e4f
tree0c35420f9526af44767ccdef35226819acdbe465
parent5dbedee441b11de887d945c655ace5f6215f5d4c
md: Close race when setting 'action' to 'idle'.

commit 8e8e2518fceca407bb8fc2a6710d19d2e217892e upstream.

Checking ->sync_thread without holding the mddev_lock()
isn't really safe, even after flushing the workqueue which
ensures md_start_sync() has been run.

While this code is waiting for the lock, md_check_recovery could reap
the thread itself, and then start another thread (e.g. recovery might
finish, then reshape starts).  When this thread gets the lock
md_start_sync() hasn't run so it doesn't get reaped, but
MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING gets cleared.  This allows two threads to start
which leads to confusion.

So don't both if MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING isn't set, but if it is do
the flush and the test and the reap all under the mddev_lock to
avoid any race with md_check_recovery.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fixes: 6791875e2e53 ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/md.c