Linux 6.9+ is unable to start a degraded RAID1 array with one drive,
when that drive has a write-mostly flag set. During such an attempt,
the following assertion in bio_split() is hit:
BUG_ON(sectors <= 0);
Call Trace:
? bio_split+0x96/0xb0
? exc_invalid_op+0x53/0x70
? bio_split+0x96/0xb0
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20
? bio_split+0x96/0xb0
? raid1_read_request+0x890/0xd20
? __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x97/0x260
raid1_make_request+0x81/0xce0
? __get_random_u32_below+0x17/0x70
? new_slab+0x2b3/0x580
md_handle_request+0x77/0x210
md_submit_bio+0x62/0xa0
__submit_bio+0x17b/0x230
submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x18e/0x3c0
submit_bio_noacct+0x244/0x670
After investigation, it turned out that choose_slow_rdev() does not set
the value of max_sectors in some cases and because of it,
raid1_read_request calls bio_split with sectors == 0.
Fix it by filling in this variable.
This bug was introduced in
commit dfa8ecd167c1 ("md/raid1: factor out choose_slow_rdev() from read_balance()")
but apparently hidden until
commit 0091c5a269ec ("md/raid1: factor out helpers to choose the best rdev from read_balance()")
shortly thereafter.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.9.x+
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@xxxxx>
Fixes: dfa8ecd167c1 ("md/raid1: factor out choose_slow_rdev() from read_balance()")
Cc: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Luse <paul.e.luse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Xiao Ni <xni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mariusz Tkaczyk <mariusz.tkaczyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/20240706143038.7253-1-mat.jonczyk@xxxxx/
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Tested on both Linux 6.10 and 6.9.8.
Inside a VM, mdadm testsuite for RAID1 on 6.10 did not find any problems:
./test --dev=loop --no-error --raidtype=raid1
(on 6.9.8 there was one failure, caused by external bitmap support not
compiled in).
Notes:
- I was reliably getting deadlocks when adding / removing devices
on such an array - while the array was loaded with fsstress with 20
concurrent processes. When the array was idle or loaded with fsstress
with 8 processes, no such deadlocks happened in my tests.
This occurred also on unpatched Linux 6.8.0 though, but not on
6.1.97-rc1, so this is likely an independent regression (to be
investigated).
- I was also getting deadlocks when adding / removing the bitmap on the
array in similar conditions - this happened on Linux 6.1.97-rc1
also though. fsstress with 8 concurrent processes did cause it only
once during many tests.
- in my testing, there was once a problem with hot adding an
internal bitmap to the array:
mdadm: Cannot add bitmap while array is resyncing or reshaping etc.
mdadm: failed to set internal bitmap.
even though no such reshaping was happening according to /proc/mdstat.
This seems unrelated, though.
---
drivers/md/raid1.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index 7b8a71ca66dd..82f70a4ce6ed 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -680,6 +680,7 @@ static int choose_slow_rdev(struct r1conf *conf, struct r1bio *r1_bio,
len = r1_bio->sectors;
read_len = raid1_check_read_range(rdev, this_sector, &len);
if (read_len == r1_bio->sectors) {
+ *max_sectors = read_len;
update_read_sectors(conf, disk, this_sector, read_len);
return disk;
}
base-commit: 256abd8e550ce977b728be79a74e1729438b4948
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2.25.1
