[PATCH 4.5 051/238] dm thin metadata: dont issue prefetches if a transaction abort has failed

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Apr 10 2016 - 16:43:45 EST


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

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From: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 2eae9e4489b4cf83213fa3bd508b5afca3f01780 upstream.

If a transaction abort has failed then we can no longer use the metadata
device. Typically this happens if the superblock is unreadable.

This fix addresses a crash seen during metadata device failure testing.

Fixes: 8a01a6af75 ("dm thin: prefetch missing metadata pages")
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
@@ -1981,5 +1981,8 @@ bool dm_pool_metadata_needs_check(struct

void dm_pool_issue_prefetches(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd)
{
- dm_tm_issue_prefetches(pmd->tm);
+ down_read(&pmd->root_lock);
+ if (!pmd->fail_io)
+ dm_tm_issue_prefetches(pmd->tm);
+ up_read(&pmd->root_lock);
}