This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
md/raid5: fix another livelock caused by non-aligned writes.
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-raid5-fix-another-livelock-caused-by-non-aligned-writes.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 b1b02fe97f75b12ab34b2303bfd4e3526d903a58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 10:44:29 +1100
Subject: md/raid5: fix another livelock caused by non-aligned writes.
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
commit b1b02fe97f75b12ab34b2303bfd4e3526d903a58 upstream.
If a non-page-aligned write is destined for a device which
is missing/faulty, we can deadlock.
As the target device is missing, a read-modify-write cycle
is not possible.
As the write is not for a full-page, a recontruct-write cycle
is not possible.
This should be handled by logic in fetch_block() which notices
there is a non-R5_OVERWRITE write to a missing device, and so
loads all blocks.
However since commit 67f455486d2ea2, that code requires
STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE before it will active, and those circumstances
never set STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE.
So: in handle_stripe_dirtying, if neither rmw or rcw was possible,
set STRIPE_DELAYED, which will cause STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE be set
after a suitable delay.
Fixes: 67f455486d2ea20b2d94d6adf5b9b783d079e321
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/raid5.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -3195,6 +3195,11 @@ static void handle_stripe_dirtying(struc
(unsigned long long)sh->sector,
rcw, qread, test_bit(STRIPE_DELAYED, &sh->state));
}
+
+ if (rcw > disks && rmw > disks &&
+ !test_bit(STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE, &sh->state))
+ set_bit(STRIPE_DELAYED, &sh->state);
+
/* now if nothing is locked, and if we have enough data,
* we can start a write request
*/
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/md-raid5-fix-another-livelock-caused-by-non-aligned-writes.patch
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