md: make ->congested robust against personality changes.

There is currently no locking around calls to the 'congested'
bdi function.  If called at an awkward time while an array is
being converted from one level (or personality) to another, there
is a tiny chance of running code in an unreferenced module etc.

So add a 'congested' function to the md_personality operations
structure, and call it with appropriate locking from a central
'mddev_congested'.

When the array personality is changing the array will be 'suspended'
so no IO is processed.
If mddev_congested detects this, it simply reports that the
array is congested, which is a safe guess.
As mddev_suspend calls synchronize_rcu(), mddev_congested can
avoid races by included the whole call inside an rcu_read_lock()
region.
This require that the congested functions for all subordinate devices
can be run under rcu_lock.  Fortunately this is the case.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index f0d15bdd96d4..f2602280fac1 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -496,6 +496,9 @@ struct md_personality
 	 * array.
 	 */
 	void *(*takeover) (struct mddev *mddev);
+	/* congested implements bdi.congested_fn().
+	 * Will not be called while array is 'suspended' */
+	int (*congested)(struct mddev *mddev, int bits);
 };
 
 struct md_sysfs_entry {