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: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231125081604.3939938-2-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index fcc8a44dd4fd..d431e4625cc5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -8233,15 +8233,6 @@ static int raid5_remove_disk(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev)
 		goto abort;
 	}
 	*rdevp = NULL;
-	if (!test_bit(RemoveSynchronized, &rdev->flags)) {
-		lockdep_assert_held(&mddev->reconfig_mutex);
-		synchronize_rcu();
-		if (atomic_read(&rdev->nr_pending)) {
-			/* lost the race, try later */
-			err = -EBUSY;
-			rcu_assign_pointer(*rdevp, rdev);
-		}
-	}
 	if (!err) {
 		err = log_modify(conf, rdev, false);
 		if (err)