[PATCH] md: fix potential memalloc deadlock in md

If a GFP_KERNEL allocation is attempted in md while the mddev_lock is held,
it is possible for a deadlock to eventuate.

This happens if the array was marked 'clean', and the memalloc triggers a
write-out to the md device.

For the writeout to succeed, the array must be marked 'dirty', and that
requires getting the mddev_lock.

So, before attempting a GFP_KERNEL allocation while holding the lock, make
sure the array is marked 'dirty' (unless it is currently read-only).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index ab74d40cac98..97ee870b265d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -2104,6 +2104,8 @@ static int raid1_reshape(mddev_t *mddev)
                 return -EINVAL;
         }
 
+        md_allow_write(mddev);
+
         raid_disks = mddev->raid_disks + mddev->delta_disks;
 
         if (raid_disks < conf->raid_disks) {