This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dm stripe: fix regression in stripe_width calculation
to the 3.9-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:
dm-stripe-fix-regression-in-stripe_width-calculation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d793e684277124d55c5d2444007e224635821346 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 14:37:14 +0100
Subject: dm stripe: fix regression in stripe_width calculation
From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit d793e684277124d55c5d2444007e224635821346 upstream.
Fix a regression in the calculation of the stripe_width in the
dm stripe target which led to incorrect processing of device limits.
The stripe_width is the stripe device length divided by the number of
stripes. The group of commits in the range f14fa69 ("dm stripe: fix
size test") to eb850de ("dm stripe: support for non power of 2
chunksize") interfered with each other (a merging error) and led to the
stripe_width being set incorrectly to the stripe device length divided by
chunk_size * stripe_count.
For example, a stripe device's table with: 0 33553920 striped 3 512 ...
should result in a stripe_width of 11184640 (33553920 / 3), but due to
the bug it was getting set to 21845 (33553920 / (512 * 3)).
The impact of this bug is that device topologies that previously worked
fine with the stripe target are no longer considered valid. In
particular, there is a higher risk of seeing this issue if one of the
stripe devices has a 4K logical block size. Resulting in an error
message like this:
"device-mapper: table: 253:4: len=21845 not aligned to h/w logical block size 4096 of dm-1"
The fix is to swap the order of the divisions and to use a temporary
variable for the second one, so that width retains the intended
value.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm-stripe.c | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/md/dm-stripe.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-stripe.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static int get_stripe(struct dm_target *
static int stripe_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
{
struct stripe_c *sc;
- sector_t width;
+ sector_t width, tmp_len;
uint32_t stripes;
uint32_t chunk_size;
int r;
@@ -116,15 +116,16 @@ static int stripe_ctr(struct dm_target *
}
width = ti->len;
- if (sector_div(width, chunk_size)) {
+ if (sector_div(width, stripes)) {
ti->error = "Target length not divisible by "
- "chunk size";
+ "number of stripes";
return -EINVAL;
}
- if (sector_div(width, stripes)) {
+ tmp_len = width;
+ if (sector_div(tmp_len, chunk_size)) {
ti->error = "Target length not divisible by "
- "number of stripes";
+ "chunk size";
return -EINVAL;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/dm-stripe-fix-regression-in-stripe_width-calculation.patch
queue-3.9/dm-table-fix-write-same-support.patch
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