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 <neilb@suse.de> Fixes: 6791875e ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0+)
Showing
Please register or sign in to comment