dm: path selector use module refcount directly
Fix refcount corruption in dm-path-selector
Refcounting with non-atomic ops under shared lock will corrupt the counter
in multi-processor system and may trigger BUG_ON().
Use module refcount.
# same approach as dm-target-use-module-refcount-directly.patch here
# https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2008-December/msg00075.html
Typical oops:
kernel BUG at linux-2.6.29-rc3/drivers/md/dm-path-selector.c:90!
Pid: 11148, comm: dmsetup Not tainted 2.6.29-rc3-nm #1
dm_put_path_selector+0x4d/0x61 [dm_multipath]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa031d3f9>] free_priority_group+0x33/0xb3 [dm_multipath]
[<ffffffffa031d4aa>] free_multipath+0x31/0x67 [dm_multipath]
[<ffffffffa031d50d>] multipath_dtr+0x2d/0x32 [dm_multipath]
[<ffffffffa015d6c2>] dm_table_destroy+0x64/0xd8 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa015b73a>] __unbind+0x46/0x4b [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa015b79f>] dm_swap_table+0x60/0x14d [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa015f963>] dev_suspend+0xfd/0x177 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa0160250>] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x24c/0x29c [dm_mod]
[<ffffffff80288cd3>] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x49c/0x61d
[<ffffffffa015f866>] ? dev_suspend+0x0/0x177 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffff802bf05c>] vfs_ioctl+0x2a/0x77
[<ffffffff802bf4f1>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x448/0x4a0
[<ffffffff802bf5a0>] sys_ioctl+0x57/0x7a
[<ffffffff8020c05b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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