Btrfs: fix race between removing a dev and writing sbs

This change fixes an issue when removing a device and writing
all super blocks run simultaneously. Here's the steps necessary
for the issue to happen:

1) disk-io.c:write_all_supers() gets a number of N devices from the
   super_copy, so it will not panic if it fails to write super blocks
   for N - 1 devices;

2) Then it tries to acquire the device_list_mutex, but blocks because
   volumes.c:btrfs_rm_device() got it first;

3) btrfs_rm_device() removes the device from the list, then unlocks the
   mutex and after the unlock it updates the number of devices in
   super_copy to N - 1.

4) write_all_supers() finally acquires the mutex, iterates over all the
   devices in the list and gets N - 1 errors, that is, it failed to write
   super blocks to all the devices;

5) Because write_all_supers() thinks there are a total of N devices, it
   considers N - 1 errors to be ok, and therefore won't panic.

So this change just makes sure that write_all_supers() reads the number
of devices from super_copy after it acquires the device_list_mutex.
Conversely, it changes btrfs_rm_device() to update the number of devices
in super_copy before it releases the device list mutex.

The code path to add a new device (volumes.c:btrfs_init_new_device),
already has the right behaviour: it updates the number of devices in
super_copy while holding the device_list_mutex.

The only code path that doesn't lock the device list mutex
before updating the number of devices in the super copy is
disk-io.c:next_root_backup(), called by open_ctree() during
mount time where concurrency issues can't happen.

Signed-off-by: Filipe David Borba Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>

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