From f48ed538386cb41559282d989354e8f5d442d71c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:31:26 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Close race in md_probe There is a possible race in md_probe. If two threads call md_probe for the same device, then one could exit (having checked that ->gendisk exists) before the other has called kobject_init_and_add, thus returning an incomplete kobj which will cause problems when we try to add children to it. So extend the range of protection of disks_mutex slightly to avoid this possibility. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown --- drivers/md/md.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 261322722c19..97852099defd 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -3359,9 +3359,9 @@ static struct kobject *md_probe(dev_t dev, int *part, void *data) disk->queue = mddev->queue; add_disk(disk); mddev->gendisk = disk; - mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex); error = kobject_init_and_add(&mddev->kobj, &md_ktype, &disk->dev.kobj, "%s", "md"); + mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex); if (error) printk(KERN_WARNING "md: cannot register %s/md - name in use\n", disk->disk_name);