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Yu Kuai authored
Commit 5792a285 ("[PATCH] md: avoid a deadlock when removing a device from an md array via sysfs") delays the deletion of rdev, however, this introduces a window that rdev can be added again while the deletion is not done yet, and sysfs will complain about duplicate filename. Follow up patches try to fix this problem by flushing workqueue, however, flush_rdev_wq() is just dead code, the progress in md_kick_rdev_from_array(): 1) list_del_rcu(&rdev->same_set); 2) synchronize_rcu(); 3) queue_work(md_rdev_misc_wq, &rdev->del_work); So in flush_rdev_wq(), if rdev is found in the list, work_pending() can never pass, in the meantime, if work is queued, then rdev can never be found in the list. flush_rdev_wq() can be replaced by flush_workqueue() directly, however, this approach is not good: - the workqueue is global, this synchronization for all raid disks is not necessary. - flush_workqueue can't be called under 'reconfig_mutex', there is still a small window between flush_workqueue() and mddev_lock() that other contexts can queue new work, hence the problem is not solved completely. sysfs already has apis to support delete itself through writer, and these apis, specifically sysfs_break/unbreak_active_protection(), is used to support deleting rdev synchronously. Therefore, the above commit can be reverted, and sysfs duplicate filename can be avoided. A new mdadm regression test is proposed as well([1]). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/20230428062845.1975462-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com/ Fixes: 5792a285 ("[PATCH] md: avoid a deadlock when removing a device from an md array via sysfs") Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230523012727.3042247-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
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