This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md/raid5: avoid races when changing cache size. to the 4.1-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-raid5-avoid-races-when-changing-cache-size.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2d5b569b665ea6d0b15c52529ff06300de81a7ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 12:49:23 +1000 Subject: md/raid5: avoid races when changing cache size. From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> commit 2d5b569b665ea6d0b15c52529ff06300de81a7ce upstream. Cache size can grow or shrink due to various pressures at any time. So when we resize the cache as part of a 'grow' operation (i.e. change the size to allow more devices) we need to blocks that automatic growing/shrinking. So introduce a mutex. auto grow/shrink uses mutex_trylock() and just doesn't bother if there is a blockage. Resizing the whole cache holds the mutex to ensure that the correct number of new stripes is allocated. This bug can result in some stripes not being freed when an array is stopped. This leads to the kmem_cache not being freed and a subsequent array can try to use the same kmem_cache and get confused. Fixes: edbe83ab4c27 ("md/raid5: allow the stripe_cache to grow and shrink.") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid5.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------ drivers/md/raid5.h | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -2151,6 +2151,9 @@ static int resize_stripes(struct r5conf if (!sc) return -ENOMEM; + /* Need to ensure auto-resizing doesn't interfere */ + mutex_lock(&conf->cache_size_mutex); + for (i = conf->max_nr_stripes; i; i--) { nsh = alloc_stripe(sc, GFP_KERNEL); if (!nsh) @@ -2167,6 +2170,7 @@ static int resize_stripes(struct r5conf kmem_cache_free(sc, nsh); } kmem_cache_destroy(sc); + mutex_unlock(&conf->cache_size_mutex); return -ENOMEM; } /* Step 2 - Must use GFP_NOIO now. @@ -2213,6 +2217,7 @@ static int resize_stripes(struct r5conf } else err = -ENOMEM; + mutex_unlock(&conf->cache_size_mutex); /* Step 4, return new stripes to service */ while(!list_empty(&newstripes)) { nsh = list_entry(newstripes.next, struct stripe_head, lru); @@ -5846,12 +5851,14 @@ static void raid5d(struct md_thread *thr pr_debug("%d stripes handled\n", handled); spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock); - if (test_and_clear_bit(R5_ALLOC_MORE, &conf->cache_state)) { + if (test_and_clear_bit(R5_ALLOC_MORE, &conf->cache_state) && + mutex_trylock(&conf->cache_size_mutex)) { grow_one_stripe(conf, __GFP_NOWARN); /* Set flag even if allocation failed. This helps * slow down allocation requests when mem is short */ set_bit(R5_DID_ALLOC, &conf->cache_state); + mutex_unlock(&conf->cache_size_mutex); } async_tx_issue_pending_all(); @@ -5883,18 +5890,22 @@ raid5_set_cache_size(struct mddev *mddev return -EINVAL; conf->min_nr_stripes = size; + mutex_lock(&conf->cache_size_mutex); while (size < conf->max_nr_stripes && drop_one_stripe(conf)) ; + mutex_unlock(&conf->cache_size_mutex); err = md_allow_write(mddev); if (err) return err; + mutex_lock(&conf->cache_size_mutex); while (size > conf->max_nr_stripes) if (!grow_one_stripe(conf, GFP_KERNEL)) break; + mutex_unlock(&conf->cache_size_mutex); return 0; } @@ -6360,11 +6371,18 @@ static unsigned long raid5_cache_scan(st struct shrink_control *sc) { struct r5conf *conf = container_of(shrink, struct r5conf, shrinker); - int ret = 0; - while (ret < sc->nr_to_scan) { - if (drop_one_stripe(conf) == 0) - return SHRINK_STOP; - ret++; + unsigned long ret = SHRINK_STOP; + + if (mutex_trylock(&conf->cache_size_mutex)) { + ret= 0; + while (ret < sc->nr_to_scan) { + if (drop_one_stripe(conf) == 0) { + ret = SHRINK_STOP; + break; + } + ret++; + } + mutex_unlock(&conf->cache_size_mutex); } return ret; } @@ -6433,6 +6451,7 @@ static struct r5conf *setup_conf(struct goto abort; spin_lock_init(&conf->device_lock); seqcount_init(&conf->gen_lock); + mutex_init(&conf->cache_size_mutex); init_waitqueue_head(&conf->wait_for_stripe); init_waitqueue_head(&conf->wait_for_overlap); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&conf->handle_list); --- a/drivers/md/raid5.h +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.h @@ -482,7 +482,8 @@ struct r5conf { */ int active_name; char cache_name[2][32]; - struct kmem_cache *slab_cache; /* for allocating stripes */ + struct kmem_cache *slab_cache; /* for allocating stripes */ + struct mutex cache_size_mutex; /* Protect changes to cache size */ int seq_flush, seq_write; int quiesce; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/md-raid5-avoid-races-when-changing-cache-size.patch queue-4.1/md-flush-event_work-before-stopping-array.patch queue-4.1/md-raid5-don-t-let-shrink_slab-shrink-too-far.patch queue-4.1/nfsv4-don-t-set-setattr-for-o_rdonly-o_excl.patch queue-4.1/md-raid10-always-set-reshape_safe-when-initializing-reshape_position.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