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| author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2011-05-10 17:49:01 +1000 |
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| committer | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2011-05-11 14:26:17 +1000 |
| commit | b0140891a8cea36469f58d23859e599b1122bd37 (patch) | |
| tree | 01f378d9964c1d24683a3c42bfd06b1da7d985b6 /drivers/md | |
| parent | 693d92a1bbc9e42681c42ed190bd42b636ca876f (diff) | |
md: Fix race when creating a new md device.
There is a race when creating an md device by opening /dev/mdXX.
If two processes do this at much the same time they will follow the
call path
__blkdev_get -> get_gendisk -> kobj_lookup
The first will call
-> md_probe -> md_alloc -> add_disk -> blk_register_region
and the race happens when the second gets to kobj_lookup after
add_disk has called blk_register_region but before it returns to
md_alloc.
In the case the second will not call md_probe (as the probe is already
done) but will get a handle on the gendisk, return to __blkdev_get
which will then call md_open (via the ->open) pointer.
As mddev->gendisk hasn't been set yet, md_open will think something is
wrong an return with ERESTARTSYS.
This can loop endlessly while the first thread makes no progress
through add_disk. Nothing is blocking it, but due to scheduler
behaviour it doesn't get a turn.
So this is essentially a live-lock.
We fix this by simply moving the assignment to mddev->gendisk before
the call the add_disk() so md_open doesn't get confused.
Also move blk_queue_flush earlier because add_disk should be as late
as possible.
To make sure that md_open doesn't complete until md_alloc has done all
that is needed, we take mddev->open_mutex during the last part of
md_alloc. md_open will wait for this.
This can cause a lock-up on boot so Cc:ing for stable.
For 2.6.36 and earlier a different patch will be needed as the
'blk_queue_flush' call isn't there.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/md.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 7d6f7f18a92..4a4c0f80bde 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -4347,13 +4347,19 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name) disk->fops = &md_fops; disk->private_data = mddev; disk->queue = mddev->queue; + blk_queue_flush(mddev->queue, REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA); /* Allow extended partitions. This makes the * 'mdp' device redundant, but we can't really * remove it now. */ disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT; - add_disk(disk); mddev->gendisk = disk; + /* As soon as we call add_disk(), another thread could get + * through to md_open, so make sure it doesn't get too far + */ + mutex_lock(&mddev->open_mutex); + add_disk(disk); + error = kobject_init_and_add(&mddev->kobj, &md_ktype, &disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, "%s", "md"); if (error) { @@ -4367,8 +4373,7 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name) if (mddev->kobj.sd && sysfs_create_group(&mddev->kobj, &md_bitmap_group)) printk(KERN_DEBUG "pointless warning\n"); - - blk_queue_flush(mddev->queue, REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA); + mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex); abort: mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex); if (!error && mddev->kobj.sd) { |