linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 20/51] md/linear: shutup lockdep warnning

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Message-Id: <20171019134842.537728603@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 19 Oct 2017 15:48:41 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 20/51] md/linear: shutup lockdep warnning

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

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

From: Shaohua Li <shli@...com>


[ Upstream commit d939cdfde34f50b95254b375f498447c82190b3e ]

Commit 03a9e24(md linear: fix a race between linear_add() and
linear_congested()) introduces the warnning.

Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@...com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/md/linear.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/linear.c
+++ b/drivers/md/linear.c
@@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ static int linear_add(struct mddev *mdde
 	 * oldconf until no one uses it anymore.
 	 */
 	mddev_suspend(mddev);
-	oldconf = rcu_dereference(mddev->private);
+	oldconf = rcu_dereference_protected(mddev->private,
+			lockdep_is_held(&mddev->reconfig_mutex));
 	mddev->raid_disks++;
 	WARN_ONCE(mddev->raid_disks != newconf->raid_disks,
 		"copied raid_disks doesn't match mddev->raid_disks");