[PATCH] md: fix locking problem in r5/r6

bitmap_unplug actually writes data (bits) to storage, so we shouldn't be
holding a spinlock...

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index e2a40283e323..36d5f8ac8265 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -1704,7 +1704,9 @@ static void raid5d (mddev_t *mddev)
 
                 if (conf->seq_flush - conf->seq_write > 0) {
                         int seq = conf->seq_flush;
+                        spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
                         bitmap_unplug(mddev->bitmap);
+                        spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
                         conf->seq_write = seq;
                         activate_bit_delay(conf);
                 }