From 8e8e2518fceca407bb8fc2a6710d19d2e217892e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:51:27 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] md: Close race when setting 'action' to 'idle'. 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 Fixes: 6791875e2e53 ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0+) --- drivers/md/md.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index dd59d71ade2f..8d4408baa428 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -4217,13 +4217,14 @@ action_store(struct mddev *mddev, const char *page, size_t len) 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)) -- 2.34.1