SandeepKsinha 1245278975 +1000 committer NeilBrown 1245278975 +1000 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 Signed-off-by: NeilBrown