md/raid5: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown below: get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) init_cpu(cpu); register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier); put_online_cpus(); This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently with CPU hotplug operations). Interestingly, the raid5 code can actually prevent double initialization and hence can use the following simplified form of callback registration: register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier); get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) init_cpu(cpu); put_online_cpus(); A hotplug operation that occurs between registering the notifier and calling get_online_cpus(), won't disrupt anything, because the code takes care to perform the memory allocations only once. So reorganize the code in raid5 this way to fix the deadlock with callback registration. Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v2.6.32+) Fixes: 36d1c647 Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> [Srivatsa: Fixed the unregister_cpu_notifier() deadlock, added the free_scratch_buffer() helper to condense code further and wrote the changelog.] Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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