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    dm-delay: fix a race between delay_presuspend and delay_bio · 6fc45b6e
    Mikulas Patocka authored
    In delay_presuspend, we set the atomic variable may_delay and then stop
    the timer and flush pending bios. The intention here is to prevent the
    delay target from re-arming the timer again.
    
    However, this test is racy. Suppose that one thread goes to delay_bio,
    sees that dc->may_delay is one and proceeds; now, another thread executes
    delay_presuspend, it sets dc->may_delay to zero, deletes the timer and
    flushes pending bios. Then, the first thread continues and adds the bio to
    delayed->list despite the fact that dc->may_delay is false.
    
    Fix this bug by changing may_delay's type from atomic_t to bool and
    only access it while holding the delayed_bios_lock mutex. Note that we
    don't have to grab the mutex in delay_resume because there are no bios
    in flight at this point.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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