On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 09:59:41AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > commit 6a4db2a60306eb65bfb14ccc9fde035b74a4b4e7 upstream. > > > > commit d3374825ce57 ("md: make devices disappear when they are no longer > > needed.") introduced protection between mddev creating & removing. The > > md_open shouldn't create mddev when all_mddevs list doesn't contain > > mddev. With currently code logic, there will be very easy to trigger > > soft lockup in non-preempt env. > > > > This patch changes md_open returning from -ERESTARTSYS to -EBUSY, which > > will break the infinitely retry when md_open enter racing area. > > > > This patch is partly fix soft lockup issue, full fix needs mddev_find > > is split into two functions: mddev_find & mddev_find_or_alloc. And > > md_open should call new mddev_find (it only does searching job). > > > > For more detail, please refer with Christoph's "split mddev_find" patch > > in later commits. > > Something went wrong here; changelog is truncated, in particular it > does not contain required sign-offs. That's really odd, let me figure out what went wrong there, might be a quilt thing... greg k-hj