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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2014-01-14 01:37:54 +0100
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2014-01-15 05:23:04 +0100
commit2995fa78e423d7193f3b57835f6c1c75006a0315 (patch)
tree9f107c0503a3c0ba58559a62847e9236f3fd1951 /drivers/md/Kconfig
parentdm snapshot: use dm-bufio prefetch (diff)
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dm sysfs: fix a module unload race
This reverts commit be35f48610 ("dm: wait until embedded kobject is released before destroying a device") and provides an improved fix. The kobject release code that calls the completion must be placed in a non-module file, otherwise there is a module unload race (if the process calling dm_kobject_release is preempted and the DM module unloaded after the completion is triggered, but before dm_kobject_release returns). To fix this race, this patch moves the completion code to dm-builtin.c which is always compiled directly into the kernel if BLK_DEV_DM is selected. The patch introduces a new dm_kobject_holder structure, its purpose is to keep the completion and kobject in one place, so that it can be accessed from non-module code without the need to export the layout of struct mapped_device to that code. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/Kconfig4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
index 39b540a13369..9a06fe883766 100644
--- a/drivers/md/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig
@@ -176,8 +176,12 @@ config MD_FAULTY
source "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig"
+config BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
+ boolean
+
config BLK_DEV_DM
tristate "Device mapper support"
+ select BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN
---help---
Device-mapper is a low level volume manager. It works by allowing
people to specify mappings for ranges of logical sectors. Various