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md: clear mddev->private when it has been freed.
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If ->private is set when ->run is called, it is assumed to be
a 'config'  prepared as part of 'reshape'.

So it is important when we free that config, that we also clear ->private.
This is not often a problem as the mddev will normally be discarded
shortly after the config us freed.
However if an 'assemble' races with a final close, the assemble can use
the old mddev which has a stale ->private.  This leads to any of
various sorts of crashes.

So clear ->private after calling ->free().

Reported-by: Nate Clark <nate@neworld.us>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0+)
Fixes: afa0f55 ("md: rename ->stop to ->free")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
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NeilBrown committed Jun 25, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -5178,6 +5178,7 @@ int md_run(struct mddev *mddev)
mddev_detach(mddev);
if (mddev->private)
pers->free(mddev, mddev->private);
mddev->private = NULL;
module_put(pers->owner);
bitmap_destroy(mddev);
return err;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -5313,6 +5314,7 @@ static void md_clean(struct mddev *mddev)
mddev->changed = 0;
mddev->degraded = 0;
mddev->safemode = 0;
mddev->private = NULL;
mddev->merge_check_needed = 0;
mddev->bitmap_info.offset = 0;
mddev->bitmap_info.default_offset = 0;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -5385,6 +5387,7 @@ static void __md_stop(struct mddev *mddev)
mddev->pers = NULL;
spin_unlock(&mddev->lock);
pers->free(mddev, mddev->private);
mddev->private = NULL;
if (pers->sync_request && mddev->to_remove == NULL)
mddev->to_remove = &md_redundancy_group;
module_put(pers->owner);
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