This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dm: correctly handle chained bios in dec_pending()
to the 4.4-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-correctly-handle-chained-bios-in-dec_pending.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8dd601fa8317243be887458c49f6c29c2f3d719f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:00:15 +1100
Subject: dm: correctly handle chained bios in dec_pending()
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
commit 8dd601fa8317243be887458c49f6c29c2f3d719f upstream.
dec_pending() is given an error status (possibly 0) to be recorded
against a bio. It can be called several times on the one 'struct
dm_io', and it is careful to only assign a non-zero error to
io->status. However when it then assigned io->status to bio->bi_status,
it is not careful and could overwrite a genuine error status with 0.
This can happen when chained bios are in use. If a bio is chained
beneath the bio that this dm_io is handling, the child bio might
complete and set bio->bi_status before the dm_io completes.
This has been possible since chained bios were introduced in 3.14, and
has become a lot easier to trigger with commit 18a25da84354 ("dm: ensure
bio submission follows a depth-first tree walk") as that commit caused
dm to start using chained bios itself.
A particular failure mode is that if a bio spans an 'error' target and a
working target, the 'error' fragment will complete instantly and set the
->bi_status, and the other fragment will normally complete a little
later, and will clear ->bi_status.
The fix is simply to only assign io_error to bio->bi_status when
io_error is not zero.
Reported-and-tested-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (v3.14+)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -974,7 +974,8 @@ static void dec_pending(struct dm_io *io
} else {
/* done with normal IO or empty flush */
trace_block_bio_complete(md->queue, bio, io_error);
- bio->bi_error = io_error;
+ if (io_error)
+ bio->bi_error = io_error;
bio_endio(bio);
}
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/dm-correctly-handle-chained-bios-in-dec_pending.patch