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Commit c891f1fd authored by Yu Kuai's avatar Yu Kuai Committed by Song Liu
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md: remove flag RemoveSynchronized



rcu is not used correctly here, because synchronize_rcu() is called
before replacing old value, for example:

remove_and_add_spares   // other path
 synchronize_rcu
 // called before replacing old value
 set_bit(RemoveSynchronized)
                        rcu_read_lock()
                        rdev = conf->mirros[].rdev
 pers->hot_remove_disk
  conf->mirros[].rdev = NULL;
  if (!test_bit(RemoveSynchronized))
   synchronize_rcu
   /*
    * won't be called, and won't wait
    * for concurrent readers to be done.
    */
                        // access rdev after remove_and_add_spares()
                        rcu_read_unlock()

Fortunately, there is a separate rcu protection to prevent such rdev
to be freed:

md_kick_rdev_from_array		//other path
				rcu_read_lock()
				rdev = conf->mirros[].rdev
list_del_rcu(&rdev->same_set)

				rcu_read_unlock()
				/*
				 * rdev can be removed from conf, but
				 * rdev won't be freed.
				 */
synchronize_rcu()
free rdev

Hence remove this useless flag and prepare to remove rcu protection to
access rdev from 'conf'.

Signed-off-by: default avatarYu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSong Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231125081604.3939938-2-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
parent bed9e27b
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