Note that md_wakeup_thread_directly is racy - it will do nothing if the thread is already running or it may cause spurious wake-up if the thread is blocked in another subsystem. In order to eliminate the race condition, we will retry md_wakeup_thread_directly after 0.1 seconds. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v6.7 Fixes: 130443d60b1b ("md: refactor idle/frozen_sync_thread() to fix deadlock") --- drivers/md/md.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/md.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/md.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/md.c @@ -4889,6 +4889,7 @@ static void stop_sync_thread(struct mdde mddev_unlock(mddev); +retry: set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery); /* * Thread might be blocked waiting for metadata update which will now @@ -4898,9 +4899,11 @@ static void stop_sync_thread(struct mdde if (work_pending(&mddev->sync_work)) flush_work(&mddev->sync_work); - wait_event(resync_wait, + if (!wait_event_timeout(resync_wait, !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery) || - (check_seq && sync_seq != atomic_read(&mddev->sync_seq))); + (check_seq && sync_seq != atomic_read(&mddev->sync_seq)), + HZ / 10)) + goto retry; if (locked) mddev_lock_nointr(mddev);