This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md: Skip cluster setup for dm-raid to the 4.1-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-skip-cluster-setup-for-dm-raid.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d3b178adb3a3adf54ecf77758138b654c3ee7f09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:09:17 -0500 Subject: md: Skip cluster setup for dm-raid From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> commit d3b178adb3a3adf54ecf77758138b654c3ee7f09 upstream. There is a bug that the bitmap superblock isn't initialised properly for dm-raid, so a new field can have garbage in new fields. (dm-raid does initialisation in the kernel - md initialised the superblock in mdadm). This means that for dm-raid we cannot currently trust the new ->nodes field. So: - use __GFP_ZERO to initialise the superblock properly for all new arrays - initialise all fields in bitmap_info in bitmap_new_disk_sb - ignore ->nodes for dm arrays (yes, this is a hack) This bug exposes dm-raid to bug in the (still experimental) md-cluster code, so it is suitable for -stable. It does cause crashes. References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100491 Signed-off-By: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bitmap.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c +++ b/drivers/md/bitmap.c @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ static int bitmap_new_disk_sb(struct bit bitmap_super_t *sb; unsigned long chunksize, daemon_sleep, write_behind; - bitmap->storage.sb_page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL); + bitmap->storage.sb_page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); if (bitmap->storage.sb_page == NULL) return -ENOMEM; bitmap->storage.sb_page->index = 0; @@ -541,6 +541,7 @@ static int bitmap_new_disk_sb(struct bit sb->state = cpu_to_le32(bitmap->flags); bitmap->events_cleared = bitmap->mddev->events; sb->events_cleared = cpu_to_le64(bitmap->mddev->events); + bitmap->mddev->bitmap_info.nodes = 0; kunmap_atomic(sb); @@ -611,8 +612,16 @@ re_read: daemon_sleep = le32_to_cpu(sb->daemon_sleep) * HZ; write_behind = le32_to_cpu(sb->write_behind); sectors_reserved = le32_to_cpu(sb->sectors_reserved); - nodes = le32_to_cpu(sb->nodes); - strlcpy(bitmap->mddev->bitmap_info.cluster_name, sb->cluster_name, 64); + /* XXX: This is a hack to ensure that we don't use clustering + * in case: + * - dm-raid is in use and + * - the nodes written in bitmap_sb is erroneous. + */ + if (!bitmap->mddev->sync_super) { + nodes = le32_to_cpu(sb->nodes); + strlcpy(bitmap->mddev->bitmap_info.cluster_name, + sb->cluster_name, 64); + } /* verify that the bitmap-specific fields are valid */ if (sb->magic != cpu_to_le32(BITMAP_MAGIC)) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/md-skip-cluster-setup-for-dm-raid.patch -- 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