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md: Avoid waking up a thread after it has been freed.

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Two related problems:

1/ some error paths call "md_unregister_thread(mddev->thread)"
   without subsequently clearing ->thread.  A subsequent call
   to mddev_unlock will try to wake the thread, and crash.

2/ Most calls to md_wakeup_thread are protected against the thread
   disappeared either by:
      - holding the ->mutex
      - having an active request, so something else must be keeping
        the array active.
   However mddev_unlock calls md_wakeup_thread after dropping the
   mutex and without any certainty of an active request, so the
   ->thread could theoretically disappear.
   So we need a spinlock to provide some protections.

So change md_unregister_thread to take a pointer to the thread
pointer, and ensure that it always does the required locking, and
clears the pointer properly.

Reported-by: "Moshe Melnikov" <moshe@zadarastorage.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
cc: stable@kernel.org
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NeilBrown
2011-09-21 15:30:20 +10:00
parent 27a7b260f7
commit 01f96c0a99
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@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ extern int register_md_personality(struct mdk_personality *p);
extern int unregister_md_personality(struct mdk_personality *p);
extern mdk_thread_t * md_register_thread(void (*run) (mddev_t *mddev),
mddev_t *mddev, const char *name);
extern void md_unregister_thread(mdk_thread_t *thread);
extern void md_unregister_thread(mdk_thread_t **threadp);
extern void md_wakeup_thread(mdk_thread_t *thread);
extern void md_check_recovery(mddev_t *mddev);
extern void md_write_start(mddev_t *mddev, struct bio *bi);