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dm thin metadata: fix a race when entering fail mode

In dm_thin_find_block() the ->fail_io flag was checked outside the
metadata device's root_lock, causing dm_thin_find_block() to race with
the setting of this flag.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Joe Thornber 10 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions
  1. 4 3
      drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c

+ 4 - 3
drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c

@@ -1390,10 +1390,11 @@ int dm_thin_find_block(struct dm_thin_device *td, dm_block_t block,
 	dm_block_t keys[2] = { td->id, block };
 	struct dm_btree_info *info;
 
-	if (pmd->fail_io)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	down_read(&pmd->root_lock);
+	if (pmd->fail_io) {
+		up_read(&pmd->root_lock);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	if (can_issue_io) {
 		info = &pmd->info;