This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
md: protect against crash upon fsync on ro array
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
md-protect-against-crash-upon-fsync-on-ro-array.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From bbfa57c0f2243a7c31fd248d22e9861a2802cad5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Riemer <sebastian.riemer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:28:09 +1100
Subject: md: protect against crash upon fsync on ro array
From: Sebastian Riemer <sebastian.riemer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit bbfa57c0f2243a7c31fd248d22e9861a2802cad5 upstream.
If an fsync occurs on a read-only array, we need to send a
completion for the IO and may not increment the active IO count.
Otherwise, we hit a bug trace and can't stop the MD array anymore.
By advice of Christoph Hellwig we return success upon a flush
request but we return -EROFS for other writes.
We detect flush requests by checking if the bio has zero sectors.
This patch is suitable to any -stable kernel to which it applies.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Riemer <sebastian.riemer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -307,6 +307,10 @@ static void md_make_request(struct reque
bio_io_error(bio);
return;
}
+ if (mddev->ro == 1 && unlikely(rw == WRITE)) {
+ bio_endio(bio, bio_sectors(bio) == 0 ? 0 : -EROFS);
+ return;
+ }
smp_rmb(); /* Ensure implications of 'active' are visible */
rcu_read_lock();
if (mddev->suspended) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sebastian.riemer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/md-protect-against-crash-upon-fsync-on-ro-array.patch
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