From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:12:13 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: dm mpath: flush keventd queue in destructor
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=53b351f972a882ea8b6cdb19602535f1057c884a;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

dm mpath: flush keventd queue in destructor

The commit fe9cf30eb8186ef267d1868dc9f12f2d0f40835a moves dm table event
submission from kmultipath queue to kernel kevent queue to avoid a
deadlock.

There is a possibility of race condition because kevent queue is not flushed
in the multipath destructor. The scenario is:
- some event happens and is queued to keventd
- keventd thread is delayed due to scheuling latency or some other work
- multipath device is destroyed
- keventd now attempts to process work_struct that is residing in already
  released memory.

The patch flushes the keventd queue in multipath constructor.
I've already fixed similar bug in dm-raid1.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index 838f01b1dd30..92bdcbb7c935 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ static void multipath_dtr(struct dm_target *ti)
 
 	flush_workqueue(kmpath_handlerd);
 	flush_workqueue(kmultipathd);
+	flush_scheduled_work();
 	free_multipath(m);
 }