This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
md: do not delete safemode_timer in mddev_suspend
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
md-do-not-delete-safemode_timer-in-mddev_suspend.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 49f5655707543c79857ed79ac3b4e42bfe104929
Author: Li Nan <linan122@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed May 8 17:20:53 2024 +0800
md: do not delete safemode_timer in mddev_suspend
[ Upstream commit a8768a134518e406d41799a3594aeb74e0889cf7 ]
The deletion of safemode_timer in mddev_suspend() is redundant and
potentially harmful now. If timer is about to be woken up but gets
deleted, 'in_sync' will remain 0 until the next write, causing array
to stay in the 'active' state instead of transitioning to 'clean'.
Commit 0d9f4f135eb6 ("MD: Add del_timer_sync to mddev_suspend (fix
nasty panic))" introduced this deletion for dm, because if timer fired
after dm is destroyed, the resource which the timer depends on might
have been freed.
However, commit 0dd84b319352 ("md: call __md_stop_writes in md_stop")
added __md_stop_writes() to md_stop(), which is called before freeing
resource. Timer is deleted in __md_stop_writes(), and the origin issue
is resolved. Therefore, delete safemode_timer can be removed safely now.
Signed-off-by: Li Nan <linan122@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508092053.1447930-1-linan666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 67ceab4573be4..f1f029243e0cb 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -524,7 +524,6 @@ void mddev_suspend(struct mddev *mddev)
clear_bit_unlock(MD_ALLOW_SB_UPDATE, &mddev->flags);
wait_event(mddev->sb_wait, !test_bit(MD_UPDATING_SB, &mddev->flags));
- del_timer_sync(&mddev->safemode_timer);
/* restrict memory reclaim I/O during raid array is suspend */
mddev->noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
}
