[PATCH] md: Avoid a deadlock when removing a device from an md array via sysfs.

[NeilBrown]

(This patch should go in 2.6.21 as it fixes a recent regression - NB)

A device can be removed from an md array via e.g.
  echo remove > /sys/block/md3/md/dev-sde/state

This will try to remove the 'dev-sde' subtree which will deadlock
since
  commit e7b0d26a86943370c04d6833c6edba2a72a6e240

With this patch we run the kobject_del via schedule_work so as to
avoid the deadlock.

Cc: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

### Diffstat output
 ./drivers/md/md.c           |   13 ++++++++++++-
 ./include/linux/raid/md_k.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff .prev/drivers/md/md.c ./drivers/md/md.c
--- .prev/drivers/md/md.c	2007-04-02 17:43:03.000000000 +1000
+++ ./drivers/md/md.c	2007-04-02 17:38:46.000000000 +1000
@@ -1389,6 +1389,12 @@ static int bind_rdev_to_array(mdk_rdev_t
 	return err;
 }
 
+static void delayed_delete(struct work_struct *ws)
+{
+	mdk_rdev_t *rdev = container_of(ws, mdk_rdev_t, del_work);
+	kobject_del(&rdev->kobj);
+}
+
 static void unbind_rdev_from_array(mdk_rdev_t * rdev)
 {
 	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
@@ -1401,7 +1407,12 @@ static void unbind_rdev_from_array(mdk_r
 	printk(KERN_INFO "md: unbind<%s>\n", bdevname(rdev->bdev,b));
 	rdev->mddev = NULL;
 	sysfs_remove_link(&rdev->kobj, "block");
-	kobject_del(&rdev->kobj);
+
+	/* We need to delay this, otherwise we can deadlock when
+	 * writing to 'remove' to "dev/state"
+	 */
+	INIT_WORK(&rdev->del_work, delayed_delete);
+	schedule_work(&rdev->del_work);
 }
 
 /*

diff .prev/include/linux/raid/md_k.h ./include/linux/raid/md_k.h
--- .prev/include/linux/raid/md_k.h	2007-04-02 17:43:03.000000000 +1000
+++ ./include/linux/raid/md_k.h	2007-04-02 17:36:32.000000000 +1000
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ struct mdk_rdev_s
 					   * for reporting to userspace and storing
 					   * in superblock.
 					   */
+	struct work_struct del_work;	/* used for delayed sysfs removal */
 };
 
 struct mddev_s
-
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