Commit b821eaa5 "md: remove ->changed and related code" moved revalidate_disk() under open_mutex, and lockdep noticed. [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.32-mdadm-locking #1 ------------------------------------------------------- mdadm/3640 is trying to acquire lock: (&bdev->bd_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff811acecb>] revalidate_disk+0x5b/0x90 but task is already holding lock: (&mddev->open_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffffa055e07a>] do_md_stop+0x4a/0x4d0 [md_mod] which lock already depends on the new lock. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Przemyslaw Czarnowski <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index cb20d0b..9743554 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -4711,7 +4711,7 @@ out: */ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, int mode, int is_open) { - int err = 0; + int err = 0, revalidate = 0; struct gendisk *disk = mddev->gendisk; mdk_rdev_t *rdev; @@ -4740,7 +4740,7 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, int mode, int is_open) } set_capacity(disk, 0); - revalidate_disk(disk); + revalidate = 1; if (mddev->ro) mddev->ro = 0; @@ -4748,6 +4748,8 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, int mode, int is_open) err = 0; } mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex); + if (revalidate) + revalidate_disk(disk); if (err) return err; /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html