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SubjectRe: [PATCH] md/raid5: preserve STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE in break_stripe_batch_list
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 12:58:25PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> 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@zoner.cz
> Reported-by: Martin Svec <martin.svec@zoner.cz> (and others)
> Tested-by: Tom Weber <linux@junkyard.4t2.com>
> Fixes: 1b956f7a8f9a ("md/raid5: be more selective about distributing flags across batch.")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.1 and later)
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

Applied, thanks Neil! I'll split the WARN_ON_ONCE and do it for each bit, so
next time we can have clear clue.

Thanks,
Shaohua

> ---
> drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> index b4f02c9959f2..2e7d253be6ce 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> @@ -4236,7 +4236,6 @@ static void break_stripe_batch_list(struct stripe_head *head_sh,
> 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) |
> @@ -4251,6 +4250,7 @@ static void break_stripe_batch_list(struct stripe_head *head_sh,
> (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));
>
> --
> 2.7.2
>


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