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    md/bitmap: always wait for writes on unplug. · 4b5060dd
    NeilBrown authored
    If two threads call bitmap_unplug at the same time, then
    one might schedule all the writes, and the other might
    decide that it doesn't need to wait.  But really it does.
    
    It rarely hurts to wait when it isn't absolutely necessary,
    and the current code doesn't really focus on 'absolutely necessary'
    anyway.  So just wait always.
    
    This can potentially lead to data corruption if a crash happens
    at an awkward time and data was written before the bitmap was
    updated.  It is very unlikely, but this should go to -stable
    just to be safe.  Appropriate for any -stable.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (please delay until 3.18 is released)
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