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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2008-02-06 01:39:56 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-06 10:41:19 -0800
commit177a99b23ef9878c0cedcc7273108eba8a6e9472 (patch)
tree616dd718e94a1e5e8ca536114d5fb91fa780bbc8 /Documentation/rocket.txt
parenta17184a911195c274104df98a79bec10f57e735d (diff)
md: fix use-after-free bug when dropping an rdev from an md array
Due to possible deadlock issues we need to use a schedule work to kobject_del an 'rdev' object from a different thread. A recent change means that kobject_add no longer gets a refernce, and kobject_del doesn't put a reference. Consequently, we need to explicitly hold a reference to ensure that the last reference isn't dropped before the scheduled work get a chance to call kobject_del. Also, rename delayed_delete to md_delayed_delete to that it is more obvious in a stack trace which code is to blame. Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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