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| author |   Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> | 2009-06-22 10:12:13 +0100 |
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| committer |   Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> | 2009-06-22 10:12:13 +0100 |
| commit | 53b351f972a882ea8b6cdb19602535f1057c884a (patch) | |
| tree | 0a3736a570dc7ff3c6ebf0993950a36a9784b142 /drivers/md/dm.c | |
| parent | dm raid1: keep retrying alloc if mempool_alloc failed (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-53b351f972a882ea8b6cdb19602535f1057c884a.tar.xz linux-dev-53b351f972a882ea8b6cdb19602535f1057c884a.zip | |
dm mpath: flush keventd queue in destructor
The commit fe9cf30eb8186ef267d1868dc9f12f2d0f40835a moves dm table event
submission from kmultipath queue to kernel kevent queue to avoid a
deadlock.
There is a possibility of race condition because kevent queue is not flushed
in the multipath destructor. The scenario is:
- some event happens and is queued to keventd
- keventd thread is delayed due to scheuling latency or some other work
- multipath device is destroyed
- keventd now attempts to process work_struct that is residing in already
released memory.
The patch flushes the keventd queue in multipath constructor.
I've already fixed similar bug in dm-raid1.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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