2.6.26-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Neil Brown [ Upstream commit f48ed538386cb41559282d989354e8f5d442d71c ] There is a possible race in md_probe. If two threads call md_probe for the same device, then one could exit (having checked that ->gendisk exists) before the other has called kobject_init_and_add, thus returning an incomplete kobj which will cause problems when we try to add children to it. So extend the range of protection of disks_mutex slightly to avoid this possibility. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown CC: Oliver Pinter Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/md.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -3326,9 +3326,9 @@ static struct kobject *md_probe(dev_t de disk->queue = mddev->queue; add_disk(disk); mddev->gendisk = disk; - mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex); error = kobject_init_and_add(&mddev->kobj, &md_ktype, &disk->dev.kobj, "%s", "md"); + mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex); if (error) printk(KERN_WARNING "md: cannot register %s/md - name in use\n", disk->disk_name); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/