This is because raid5d() can be running when the multi-thread
resources are changed via system. We see need to provide locking.
mddev->device_lock is suitable, but we cannot simple call
alloc_thread_groups under this lock as we cannot allocate memory
while holding a spinlock.
So change alloc_thread_groups() to allocate and return the data
structures, then raid5_store_group_thread_cnt() can take the lock
while updating the pointers to the data structures.
This fixes a bug introduced in 3.12 and so is suitable for the 3.12.x
stable series.
Fixes: b721420e8719131896b009b11edbbd27 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.12) Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>