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md: fix deadlock error in recent patch.

A recent patch aimed to cause md_write_start() to fail (rather than
block) when the mddev was suspending, so as to avoid deadlocks.
Unfortunately the test in wait_event() was wrong, and it didn't change
behaviour at all.

We wait_event() must wait until the metadata is written OR the array is
suspending.

Fixes: cc27b0c78c79 ("md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
NeilBrown 8 years ago
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      drivers/md/md.c

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drivers/md/md.c

@@ -8039,7 +8039,8 @@ bool md_write_start(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bi)
 	if (did_change)
 		sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(mddev->sysfs_state);
 	wait_event(mddev->sb_wait,
-		   !test_bit(MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING, &mddev->sb_flags) && !mddev->suspended);
+		   !test_bit(MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING, &mddev->sb_flags) ||
+		   mddev->suspended);
 	if (test_bit(MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING, &mddev->sb_flags)) {
 		percpu_ref_put(&mddev->writes_pending);
 		return false;