md/raid5: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 5 Feb 2014 22:12:45 +0000 (03:42 +0530)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 1 Apr 2014 23:58:51 +0000 (00:58 +0100)
commit778c4783df0ff6dcc120fe5c1dc9b6afa1980cd0
tree6de8133ebee373feb05b2d7d4e54255df877354e
parente5b56dda4701918b565764e47a60aa252964411c
md/raid5: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

commit 789b5e0315284463617e106baad360cb9e8db3ac upstream.

Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform
initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown
below:

get_online_cpus();

for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
init_cpu(cpu);

register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);

put_online_cpus();

This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the
cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently
with CPU hotplug operations).

Interestingly, the raid5 code can actually prevent double initialization and
hence can use the following simplified form of callback registration:

register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);

get_online_cpus();

for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
init_cpu(cpu);

put_online_cpus();

A hotplug operation that occurs between registering the notifier and calling
get_online_cpus(), won't disrupt anything, because the code takes care to
perform the memory allocations only once.

So reorganize the code in raid5 this way to fix the deadlock with callback
registration.

Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 36d1c6476be51101778882897b315bd928c8c7b5
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[Srivatsa: Fixed the unregister_cpu_notifier() deadlock, added the
free_scratch_buffer() helper to condense code further and wrote the changelog.]
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/md/raid5.c