dm sysfs: fix a module unload race
commit 2995fa78e423d7193f3b57835f6c1c75006a0315 upstream.
This reverts commit be35f48610 ("dm: wait until embedded kobject is
released before destroying a device") and provides an improved fix.
The kobject release code that calls the completion must be placed in a
non-module file, otherwise there is a module unload race (if the process
calling dm_kobject_release is preempted and the DM module unloaded after
the completion is triggered, but before dm_kobject_release returns).
To fix this race, this patch moves the completion code to dm-builtin.c
which is always compiled directly into the kernel if BLK_DEV_DM is
selected.
The patch introduces a new dm_kobject_holder structure, its purpose is
to keep the completion and kobject in one place, so that it can be
accessed from non-module code without the need to export the layout of
struct mapped_device to that code.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/md/Makefile b/drivers/md/Makefile
index 8b2e0df..4e87c54 100644
--- a/drivers/md/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/md/Makefile
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_MD_FAULTY) += faulty.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD) += md-mod.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM) += dm-mod.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN) += dm-builtin.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DM_BUFIO) += dm-bufio.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DM_CRYPT) += dm-crypt.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DM_DELAY) += dm-delay.o