md: Avoid waking up a thread after it has been freed.
Two related problems:
1/ some error paths call "md_unregister_thread(mddev->thread)"
without subsequently clearing ->thread. A subsequent call
to mddev_unlock will try to wake the thread, and crash.
2/ Most calls to md_wakeup_thread are protected against the thread
disappeared either by:
- holding the ->mutex
- having an active request, so something else must be keeping
the array active.
However mddev_unlock calls md_wakeup_thread after dropping the
mutex and without any certainty of an active request, so the
->thread could theoretically disappear.
So we need a spinlock to provide some protections.
So change md_unregister_thread to take a pointer to the thread
pointer, and ensure that it always does the required locking, and
clears the pointer properly.
Reported-by: "Moshe Melnikov" <moshe@zadarastorage.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
cc: stable@kernel.org
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 1e586bb..0a309dc 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@
extern int unregister_md_personality(struct mdk_personality *p);
extern mdk_thread_t * md_register_thread(void (*run) (mddev_t *mddev),
mddev_t *mddev, const char *name);
-extern void md_unregister_thread(mdk_thread_t *thread);
+extern void md_unregister_thread(mdk_thread_t **threadp);
extern void md_wakeup_thread(mdk_thread_t *thread);
extern void md_check_recovery(mddev_t *mddev);
extern void md_write_start(mddev_t *mddev, struct bio *bi);