[PATCH 5.15 023/121] md: Flush workqueue md_rdev_misc_wq in md_alloc()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-09-13T14:51:49Z

From: David Sloan <david.sloan@eideticom.com>

[ Upstream commit 5e8daf906f890560df430d30617c692a794acb73 ]

A race condition still exists when removing and re-creating md devices
in test cases. However, it is only seen on some setups.

The race condition was tracked down to a reference still being held
to the kobject by the rdev in the md_rdev_misc_wq which will be released
in rdev_delayed_delete().

md_alloc() waits for previous deletions by waiting on the md_misc_wq,
but the md_rdev_misc_wq may still be holding a reference to a recently
removed device.

To fix this, also flush the md_rdev_misc_wq in md_alloc().

Signed-off-by: David Sloan <david.sloan@eideticom.com>
[logang@deltatee.com: rewrote commit message]
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index c8f2e8524bfb7..04e1e294b4b1e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -5651,6 +5651,7 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
* removed (mddev_delayed_delete).
*/
flush_workqueue(md_misc_wq);
+ flush_workqueue(md_rdev_misc_wq);

mutex_lock(&disks_mutex);
mddev = mddev_alloc(dev);
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