From: NeilBrown When a device is unplugged, requests are moved from one or two (depending on whether a bitmap is in use) queues to the main request queue. So whenever requests are put on either of those queues, we should make sure the raid5 array is 'plugged'. However we don't. We currently plug the raid5 queue just before putting requests on queues, so there is room for a race. If something unplugs the queue at just the wrong time, requests will be left on the queue and nothing will want to unplug them. Normally something else will plug and unplug the queue fairly soon, but there is a risk that nothing will. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/md/raid5.c | 18 ++++++------------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/md/raid5.c~md-fix-a-plug-unplug-race-in-raid5 drivers/md/raid5.c --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c~md-fix-a-plug-unplug-race-in-raid5 +++ a/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -89,12 +89,14 @@ static void __release_stripe(raid5_conf_ BUG_ON(!list_empty(&sh->lru)); BUG_ON(atomic_read(&conf->active_stripes)==0); if (test_bit(STRIPE_HANDLE, &sh->state)) { - if (test_bit(STRIPE_DELAYED, &sh->state)) + if (test_bit(STRIPE_DELAYED, &sh->state)) { list_add_tail(&sh->lru, &conf->delayed_list); - else if (test_bit(STRIPE_BIT_DELAY, &sh->state) && - conf->seq_write == sh->bm_seq) + blk_plug_device(conf->mddev->queue); + } else if (test_bit(STRIPE_BIT_DELAY, &sh->state) && + conf->seq_write == sh->bm_seq) { list_add_tail(&sh->lru, &conf->bitmap_list); - else { + blk_plug_device(conf->mddev->queue); + } else { clear_bit(STRIPE_BIT_DELAY, &sh->state); list_add_tail(&sh->lru, &conf->handle_list); } @@ -2556,13 +2558,6 @@ static int raid5_issue_flush(request_que return ret; } -static inline void raid5_plug_device(raid5_conf_t *conf) -{ - spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock); - blk_plug_device(conf->mddev->queue); - spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock); -} - static int make_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio * bi) { mddev_t *mddev = q->queuedata; @@ -2672,7 +2667,6 @@ static int make_request(request_queue_t goto retry; } finish_wait(&conf->wait_for_overlap, &w); - raid5_plug_device(conf); handle_stripe(sh, NULL); release_stripe(sh); } else { _