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From 5dda13bd677c615462619d3b761a5c2d71c305e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 10:22:16 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "md/raid5: Wait for MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING in
 raid5d"
Git-commit: bed9e27baf52a09b7ba2a3714f1e24e17ced386d
Patch-mainline: v6.8-rc1
References: git-fixes

This reverts commit 5e2cf333b7bd5d3e62595a44d598a254c697cd74.

That commit introduced the following race and can cause system hung.

 md_write_start:             raid5d:
 // mddev->in_sync == 1
 set "MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING"
                            // running before md_write_start wakeup it
                             waiting "MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING" cleared
                             >>>>>>>>> hung
 wakeup mddev->thread
 ...
 waiting "MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING" cleared
 >>>> hung, raid5d should clear this flag
 but get hung by same flag.

The issue reverted commit fixing is fixed by last patch in a new way.

Fixes: 5e2cf333b7bd ("md/raid5: Wait for MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING in raid5d")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.19+
Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231108182216.73611-2-junxiao.bi@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <denis.kirjanov@suse.com>
---
 drivers/md/raid5.c | 12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 929d17a6638e..84e5e3767264 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
-#include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/raid/pq.h>
 #include <linux/async_tx.h>
@@ -6346,18 +6345,7 @@ static void raid5d(struct md_thread *thread)
 			spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
 			md_check_recovery(mddev);
 			spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
-
-			/*
-			 * Waiting on MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING below may deadlock
-			 * seeing md_check_recovery() is needed to clear
-			 * the flag when using mdmon.
-			 */
-			continue;
 		}
-
-		wait_event_lock_irq(mddev->sb_wait,
-			!test_bit(MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING, &mddev->sb_flags),
-			conf->device_lock);
 	}
 	pr_debug("%d stripes handled\n", handled);
 
-- 
2.16.4