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dm mpath: flush keventd queue in destructor

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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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Mikulas Patocka 2009-06-22 10:12:13 +01:00 committed by Alasdair G Kergon
parent a72986c562
commit 53b351f972
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drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
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@ -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);
}