This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drbd: fix for deadlock when using automatic split-brain-recovery 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: drbd-fix-for-deadlock-when-using-automatic-split-brain-recovery.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 7c689e63a847316c1b2500f86891b0a574ce7e69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:08:47 +0100 Subject: drbd: fix for deadlock when using automatic split-brain-recovery From: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7c689e63a847316c1b2500f86891b0a574ce7e69 upstream. With an automatic after split-brain recovery policy of "after-sb-1pri call-pri-lost-after-sb", when trying to drbd_set_role() to R_SECONDARY, we run into a deadlock. This was first recognized and supposedly fixed by 2009-06-10 "Fixed a deadlock when using automatic split brain recovery when both nodes are" replacing drbd_set_role() with drbd_change_state() in that code-path, but the first hunk of that patch forgets to remove the drbd_set_role(). We apparently only ever tested the "two primaries" case. Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c @@ -2661,7 +2661,6 @@ static int drbd_asb_recover_1p(struct dr if (hg == -1 && mdev->state.role == R_PRIMARY) { enum drbd_state_rv rv2; - drbd_set_role(mdev, R_SECONDARY, 0); /* drbd_change_state() does not sleep while in SS_IN_TRANSIENT_STATE, * we might be here in C_WF_REPORT_PARAMS which is transient. * we do not need to wait for the after state change work either. */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from philipp.reisner@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.9/drbd-fix-build-error-when-config_crypto_hmac-is-not-set.patch queue-3.9/drbd-fix-for-deadlock-when-using-automatic-split-brain-recovery.patch queue-3.9/drbd-fix-memory-leak.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html