tree a5403f9c30d4d284ced5ae211df4e171ec32f91c
parent 0f9ce866e0938f2e5f9c77277834b429661844b1
author NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> 1457488705 +1100
committer Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> 1457544701 -0800

md/raid5: preserve STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE in break_stripe_batch_list

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>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>