md: avoid deadlock when dirty buffers during md_stop.

When the last process closes /dev/mdX sync_blockdev will be called so
that all buffers get flushed.
So if it is then opened for the STOP_ARRAY ioctl to be sent there will
be nothing to flush.

However if we open /dev/mdX in order to send the STOP_ARRAY ioctl just
moments before some other process which was writing closes their file
descriptor, then there won't be a 'last close' and the buffers might
not get flushed.

So do_md_stop() calls sync_blockdev().  However at this point it is
holding ->reconfig_mutex.  So if the array is currently 'clean' then
the writes from sync_blockdev() will not complete until the array
can be marked dirty and that won't happen until some other thread
can get ->reconfig_mutex.  So we deadlock.

We need to move the sync_blockdev() call to before we take
->reconfig_mutex.
However then some other thread could open /dev/mdX and write to it
after we call sync_blockdev() and before we actually stop the array.
This can leave dirty data in the page cache which is awkward.

So introduce new flag MD_STILL_CLOSED.  Set it before calling
sync_blockdev(), clear it if anyone does open the file, and abort the
STOP_ARRAY attempt if it gets set before we lock against further
opens.

It is still possible to get problems if you open /dev/mdX, write to
it, then issue the STOP_ARRAY ioctl.  Just don't do that.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 084a6540a4bd..adf4d7e1d5e1 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -5337,8 +5337,14 @@ static int md_set_readonly(struct mddev *mddev, struct block_device *bdev)
 		err = -EBUSY;
 		goto out;
 	}
-	if (bdev)
-		sync_blockdev(bdev);
+	if (bdev && !test_bit(MD_STILL_CLOSED, &mddev->flags)) {
+		/* Someone opened the device since we flushed it
+		 * so page cache could be dirty and it is too late
+		 * to flush.  So abort
+		 */
+		mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
+		return -EBUSY;
+	}
 	if (mddev->pers) {
 		__md_stop_writes(mddev);
 
@@ -5373,14 +5379,14 @@ static int do_md_stop(struct mddev * mddev, int mode,
 		mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
-	if (bdev)
-		/* It is possible IO was issued on some other
-		 * open file which was closed before we took ->open_mutex.
-		 * As that was not the last close __blkdev_put will not
-		 * have called sync_blockdev, so we must.
+	if (bdev && !test_bit(MD_STILL_CLOSED, &mddev->flags)) {
+		/* Someone opened the device since we flushed it
+		 * so page cache could be dirty and it is too late
+		 * to flush.  So abort
 		 */
-		sync_blockdev(bdev);
-
+		mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
+		return -EBUSY;
+	}
 	if (mddev->pers) {
 		if (mddev->ro)
 			set_disk_ro(disk, 0);
@@ -6417,6 +6423,20 @@ static int md_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
 						 !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED,
 							   &mddev->flags),
 						 msecs_to_jiffies(5000));
+	if (cmd == STOP_ARRAY || cmd == STOP_ARRAY_RO) {
+		/* Need to flush page cache, and ensure no-one else opens
+		 * and writes
+		 */
+		mutex_lock(&mddev->open_mutex);
+		if (atomic_read(&mddev->openers) > 1) {
+			mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
+			err = -EBUSY;
+			goto abort;
+		}
+		set_bit(MD_STILL_CLOSED, &mddev->flags);
+		mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
+		sync_blockdev(bdev);
+	}
 	err = mddev_lock(mddev);
 	if (err) {
 		printk(KERN_INFO 
@@ -6670,6 +6690,7 @@ static int md_open(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode)
 
 	err = 0;
 	atomic_inc(&mddev->openers);
+	clear_bit(MD_STILL_CLOSED, &mddev->flags);
 	mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
 
 	check_disk_change(bdev);