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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2009-08-10 12:50:52 +1000
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2009-08-10 12:50:52 +1000
commitc8c00a6915a2e3d10416e8bdd3138429beb96210 (patch)
treeecf06a9e2b08edefe707da450b52a69f818ec7d6 /drivers/md/md.h
parent7b2aa037e878c939676675969983284a02958ae3 (diff)
Remove deadlock potential in md_open
A recent commit: commit 449aad3e25358812c43afc60918c5ad3819488e7 introduced the possibility of an A-B/B-A deadlock between bd_mutex and reconfig_mutex. __blkdev_get holds bd_mutex while calling md_open which takes reconfig_mutex, do_md_run is always called with reconfig_mutex held, and it now takes bd_mutex in the call the revalidate_disk. This potential deadlock was not caught by lockdep due to the use of mutex_lock_interruptible_nexted which was introduced by commit d63a5a74dee87883fda6b7d170244acaac5b05e8 do avoid a warning of an impossible deadlock. It is quite possible to split reconfig_mutex in to two locks. One protects the array data structures while it is being reconfigured, the other ensures that an array is never even partially open while it is being deactivated. In particular, the second lock prevents an open from completing between the time when do_md_stop checks if there are any active opens, and the time when the array is either set read-only, or when ->pers is set to NULL. So we can be certain that no IO is in flight as the array is being destroyed. So create a new lock, open_mutex, just to ensure exclusion between 'open' and 'stop'. This avoids the deadlock and also avoids the lockdep warning mentioned in commit d63a5a74d Reported-by: "Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@gmail.com> Reported-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 78f03168baf..f8fc188bc76 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -223,6 +223,16 @@ struct mddev_s
* so we don't loop trying */
int in_sync; /* know to not need resync */
+ /* 'open_mutex' avoids races between 'md_open' and 'do_md_stop', so
+ * that we are never stopping an array while it is open.
+ * 'reconfig_mutex' protects all other reconfiguration.
+ * These locks are separate due to conflicting interactions
+ * with bdev->bd_mutex.
+ * Lock ordering is:
+ * reconfig_mutex -> bd_mutex : e.g. do_md_run -> revalidate_disk
+ * bd_mutex -> open_mutex: e.g. __blkdev_get -> md_open
+ */
+ struct mutex open_mutex;
struct mutex reconfig_mutex;
atomic_t active; /* general refcount */
atomic_t openers; /* number of active opens */