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In delay_presuspend, we set the atomic variable may_delay and then stop the timer and flush pending bios. The intention here is to prevent the delay target from re-arming the timer again. However, this test is racy. Suppose that one thread goes to delay_bio, sees that dc->may_delay is one and proceeds; now, another thread executes delay_presuspend, it sets dc->may_delay to zero, deletes the timer and flushes pending bios. Then, the first thread continues and adds the bio to delayed->list despite the fact that dc->may_delay is false. Fix this bug by changing may_delay's type from atomic_t to bool and only access it while holding the delayed_bios_lock mutex. Note that we don't have to grab the mutex in delay_resume because there are no bios in flight at this point. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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