md/raid5: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 5 Feb 2014 22:12:45 +0000 (03:42 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:32:46 +0000 (10:32 -0800)
commitcd6f6b709eebe70d80a3e542d218228bcf189654
tree8a3b6c068e8764faeac9473cc9b4570e5e0e1d64
parent5a0d43c3374c287711f4191922835e18fc8ae3ec
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/raid5.c