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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 | |
parent | a72986c562eeec3f7b992198c168f0f41606fe53 (diff) | |
download | lwn-53b351f972a882ea8b6cdb19602535f1057c884a.tar.gz lwn-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
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c index 838f01b1dd30..92bdcbb7c935 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c @@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ static void multipath_dtr(struct dm_target *ti) flush_workqueue(kmpath_handlerd); flush_workqueue(kmultipathd); + flush_scheduled_work(); free_multipath(m); } |