From 6a9a92f4ef05bb3e94bbfe123c21482fa5da9866 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Ellenberg Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:10:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] drbd: fix harmless race to not trigger an ASSERT We have one pre-allocated page to do certain synchronous meta data IO with, using it is serialized like so: drbd_md_get_buffer(); drbd_md_sync_page_io(); drbd_md_sync_page_io(); ... drbd_md_put_buffer(); In drbd_md_sync_page_io() there is an ASSERT(atomic_read(&mdev->md_io_in_use) == 1); We want to be able to timeout on unresponsive lower level devices, so we can "detach" in that case. Inside drbd_md_sync_page_io() we grab an extra reference, to not have a dangling pointer in case a delayed IO eventually does still complete, even after we "detached" already. We need to put the extra reference before we signal completion from the completion handler, or the second drbd_md_sync_page_io() above may trigger the assert (reference count still 2). Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg --- Reading git-format-patch failed