md: protect against NULL reference when waiting to start a raid10.
When we fail to start a raid10 for some reason, we call
md_unregister_thread to kill the thread that was created.
Unfortunately md_thread() will then make one call into the handler
(raid10d) even though md_wakeup_thread has not been called. This is
not safe and as md_unregister_thread is called after mddev->private
has been set to NULL, it will definitely cause a NULL dereference.
So fix this at both ends:
- md_thread should only call the handler if THREAD_WAKEUP has been
set.
- raid10 should call md_unregister_thread before setting things
to NULL just like all the other raid modules do.
This is applicable to 2.6.35 and later.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: "Citizen" <citizen_lee@thecus.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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