md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start()
commit cc27b0c7 upstream. If mddev_suspend() races with md_write_start() we can deadlock with mddev_suspend() waiting for the request that is currently in md_write_start() to complete the ->make_request() call, and md_write_start() waiting for the metadata to be updated to mark the array as 'dirty'. As metadata updates done by md_check_recovery() only happen then the mddev_lock() can be claimed, and as mddev_suspend() is often called with the lock held, these threads wait indefinitely for each other. We fix this by having md_write_start() abort if mddev_suspend() is happening, and ->make_request() aborts if md_write_start() aborted. md_make_request() can detect this abort, decrease the ->active_io count, and wait for mddev_suspend(). Reported-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> Fix: 68866e42(MD: no sync IO while suspended) Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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