md: Avoid waking up a thread after it has been freed.

Two related problems:

1/ some error paths call "md_unregister_thread(mddev->thread)"
   without subsequently clearing ->thread.  A subsequent call
   to mddev_unlock will try to wake the thread, and crash.

2/ Most calls to md_wakeup_thread are protected against the thread
   disappeared either by:
      - holding the ->mutex
      - having an active request, so something else must be keeping
        the array active.
   However mddev_unlock calls md_wakeup_thread after dropping the
   mutex and without any certainty of an active request, so the
   ->thread could theoretically disappear.
   So we need a spinlock to provide some protections.

So change md_unregister_thread to take a pointer to the thread
pointer, and ensure that it always does the required locking, and
clears the pointer properly.

Reported-by: "Moshe Melnikov" <moshe@zadarastorage.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
cc: stable@kernel.org

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 43709fa..ac5e8b5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -4941,8 +4941,7 @@ static int run(mddev_t *mddev)
 
 	return 0;
 abort:
-	md_unregister_thread(mddev->thread);
-	mddev->thread = NULL;
+	md_unregister_thread(&mddev->thread);
 	if (conf) {
 		print_raid5_conf(conf);
 		free_conf(conf);
@@ -4956,8 +4955,7 @@ static int stop(mddev_t *mddev)
 {
 	raid5_conf_t *conf = mddev->private;
 
-	md_unregister_thread(mddev->thread);
-	mddev->thread = NULL;
+	md_unregister_thread(&mddev->thread);
 	if (mddev->queue)
 		mddev->queue->backing_dev_info.congested_fn = NULL;
 	free_conf(conf);