This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
md:raid1: fix a dead loop when read from a WriteMostly disk
to the 3.18-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-raid1-fix-a-dead-loop-when-read-from-a-writemostly-disk.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 816b0acf3deb6d6be5d0519b286fdd4bafade905 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Fang <fangwei1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:18:32 +0800
Subject: md:raid1: fix a dead loop when read from a WriteMostly disk
From: Wei Fang <fangwei1@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 816b0acf3deb6d6be5d0519b286fdd4bafade905 upstream.
If first_bad == this_sector when we get the WriteMostly disk
in read_balance(), valid disk will be returned with zero
max_sectors. It'll lead to a dead loop in make_request(), and
OOM will happen because of endless allocation of struct bio.
Since we can't get data from this disk in this case, so
continue for another disk.
Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <fangwei1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/raid1.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ static int read_balance(struct r1conf *c
if (best_dist_disk < 0) {
if (is_badblock(rdev, this_sector, sectors,
&first_bad, &bad_sectors)) {
- if (first_bad < this_sector)
+ if (first_bad <= this_sector)
/* Cannot use this */
continue;
best_good_sectors = first_bad - this_sector;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fangwei1@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/md-raid1-fix-a-dead-loop-when-read-from-a-writemostly-disk.patch