linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.0 091/105] md: Close race when setting action to idle.

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2015 13:36:21 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.0 091/105] md: Close race when setting action to idle.

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

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

From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>

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@...e.de>
Fixes: 6791875e2e53 ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/md.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -4144,13 +4144,14 @@ action_store(struct mddev *mddev, const
 			set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN, &mddev->recovery);
 		else
 			clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN, &mddev->recovery);
-		flush_workqueue(md_misc_wq);
-		if (mddev->sync_thread) {
-			set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
-			if (mddev_lock(mddev) == 0) {
+		if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery) &&
+		    mddev_lock(mddev) == 0) {
+			flush_workqueue(md_misc_wq);
+			if (mddev->sync_thread) {
+				set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
 				md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
-				mddev_unlock(mddev);
 			}
+			mddev_unlock(mddev);
 		}
 	} else if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery) ||
 		   test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery))

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