Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ For all 4 stable branches: Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> > > commit 26ac107378c4742978216be1005b7291b799c7b2 upstream. > > Commit a7854487cd7128a30a7f4f5259de9f67d5efb95f: > md: When RAID5 is dirty, force reconstruct-write instead of read-modify-write. > > Causes an RCW cycle to be forced even when the array is degraded. > A degraded array cannot support RCW as that requires reading all data > blocks, and one may be missing. > > Forcing an RCW when it is not possible causes a live-lock and the code > spins, repeatedly deciding to do something that cannot succeed. > > So change the condition to only force RCW on non-degraded arrays. > > Reported-by: Manibalan P <pmanibalan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Bisected-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> > Fixes: a7854487cd7128a30a7f4f5259de9f67d5efb95f > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > drivers/md/raid5.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c > +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c > @@ -2853,7 +2853,8 @@ static void handle_stripe_dirtying(struc > * generate correct data from the parity. > */ > if (conf->max_degraded == 2 || > - (recovery_cp < MaxSector && sh->sector >= recovery_cp)) { > + (recovery_cp < MaxSector && sh->sector >= recovery_cp && > + s->failed == 0)) { > /* Calculate the real rcw later - for now make it > * look like rcw is cheaper > */ -- 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