md linear: Protecting mddev with rcu locks to avoid races
Due to the lack of memory ordering guarantees, we may have races around
mddev->conf.
In particular, the correct contents of the structure we get from
dereferencing ->private might not be visible to this CPU yet, and
they might not be correct w.r.t mddev->raid_disks.
This patch addresses the problem using rcu protection to avoid
such race conditions.
Signed-off-by: SandeepKsinha <sandeepksinha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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