[PATCH 4.5 165/238] md/raid5: preserve STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE in break_stripe_batch_list

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Apr 10 2016 - 16:24:13 EST


4.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>

commit 550da24f8d62fe81f3c13e3ec27602d6e44d43dc upstream.

break_stripe_batch_list breaks up a batch and copies some flags from
the batch head to the members, preserving others.

It doesn't preserve or copy STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE. This is not
normally a problem as STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE is cleared when a
stripe_head is added to a batch, and is not set on stripe_heads
already in a batch.

However there is no locking to ensure one thread doesn't set the flag
after it has just been cleared in another. This does occasionally happen.

md/raid5 maintains a count of the number of stripe_heads with
STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE set: conf->preread_active_stripes. When
break_stripe_batch_list clears STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE inadvertently
this could becomes incorrect and will never again return to zero.

md/raid5 delays the handling of some stripe_heads until
preread_active_stripes becomes zero. So when the above mention race
happens, those stripe_heads become blocked and never progress,
resulting is write to the array handing.

So: change break_stripe_batch_list to preserve STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE
in the members of a batch.

URL: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108741
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258153
URL: http://thread.gmane.org/5649C0E9.2030204@xxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Martin Svec <martin.svec@xxxxxxxx> (and others)
Tested-by: Tom Weber <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 1b956f7a8f9a ("md/raid5: be more selective about distributing flags across batch.")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -4239,7 +4239,6 @@ static void break_stripe_batch_list(stru
WARN_ON_ONCE(sh->state & ((1 << STRIPE_ACTIVE) |
(1 << STRIPE_SYNCING) |
(1 << STRIPE_REPLACED) |
- (1 << STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE) |
(1 << STRIPE_DELAYED) |
(1 << STRIPE_BIT_DELAY) |
(1 << STRIPE_FULL_WRITE) |
@@ -4254,6 +4253,7 @@ static void break_stripe_batch_list(stru
(1 << STRIPE_REPLACED)));

set_mask_bits(&sh->state, ~(STRIPE_EXPAND_SYNC_FLAGS |
+ (1 << STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE) |
(1 << STRIPE_DEGRADED)),
head_sh->state & (1 << STRIPE_INSYNC));