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    md: Close race when setting 'action' to 'idle'. · 8e8e2518
    NeilBrown authored
    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: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
    Fixes: 6791875e ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0+)
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