md: factor out a helper to wake up md_thread directly
md_wakeup_thread() can't wakeup md_thread->tsk if md_thread->run is still in progress, and in some cases md_thread->tsk need to be woke up directly, like md_set_readonly() and do_md_stop(). Commit 9dfbdafd ("md: unlock mddev before reap sync_thread in action_store") introduce a new scenario where unregister sync_thread is not protected by 'reconfig_mutex', this can cause null-ptr-deference in theroy: t1: md_set_readonly t2: action_store md_unregister_thread // 'reconfig_mutex' is not held // 'reconfig_mutex' is held by caller if (mddev->sync_thread) thread = *threadp *threadp = NULL wake_up_process(mddev->sync_thread->tsk) // null-ptr-deference Fix this problem by factoring out a helper to wake up md_thread directly, so that 'sync_thread' won't be accessed multiple times from the reader side. This helper also prepare to protect md_thread with rcu. Noted that later patches is going to fix that unregister sync_thread is not protected by 'reconfig_mutex' from action_store(). Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230523021017.3048783-2-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
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