This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md/raid1: avoid reusing a resync bio after error handling. to the 4.11-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-avoid-reusing-a-resync-bio-after-error-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0c9d5b127f695818c2c5a3868c1f28ca2969e905 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 12:06:37 +1000 Subject: md/raid1: avoid reusing a resync bio after error handling. From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> commit 0c9d5b127f695818c2c5a3868c1f28ca2969e905 upstream. fix_sync_read_error() modifies a bio on a newly faulty device by setting bi_end_io to end_sync_write. This ensure that put_buf() will still call rdev_dec_pending() as required, but makes sure that subsequent code in fix_sync_read_error() doesn't try to read from the device. Unfortunately this interacts badly with sync_request_write() which assumes that any bio with bi_end_io set to non-NULL other than end_sync_read is safe to write to. As the device is now faulty it doesn't make sense to write. As the bio was recently used for a read, it is "dirty" and not suitable for immediate submission. In particular, ->bi_next might be non-NULL, which will cause generic_make_request() to complain. Break this interaction by refusing to write to devices which are marked as Faulty. Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Wang <yun.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 2e52d449bcec ("md/raid1: add failfast handling for reads.") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid1.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/md/raid1.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c @@ -2222,6 +2222,8 @@ static void sync_request_write(struct md (i == r1_bio->read_disk || !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_SYNC, &mddev->recovery)))) continue; + if (test_bit(Faulty, &conf->mirrors[i].rdev->flags)) + continue; bio_set_op_attrs(wbio, REQ_OP_WRITE, 0); if (test_bit(FailFast, &conf->mirrors[i].rdev->flags)) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/md-raid1-avoid-reusing-a-resync-bio-after-error-handling.patch