[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "md: fix calculation of stacking limits on level change." has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    md: fix calculation of stacking limits on level change.

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.14.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 09e6a1005b686f5ef9588263bb43a24c6bad46d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:16:15 +1100
Subject: md: fix calculation of stacking limits on level change.

commit 02e5f5c0a0f726e66e3d8506ea1691e344277969 upstream.

The various ->run routines of md personalities assume that the 'queue'
has been initialised by the blk_set_stacking_limits() call in
md_alloc().

However when the level is changed (by level_store()) the ->run routine
for the new level is called for an array which has already had the
stacking limits modified.  This can result in incorrect final
settings.

So call blk_set_stacking_limits() before ->run in level_store().

A specific consequence of this bug is that it causes
discard_granularity to be set incorrectly when reshaping a RAID4 to a
RAID0.

This is suitable for any -stable kernel since 3.3 in which
blk_set_stacking_limits() was introduced.

Reported-and-tested-by: "Baldysiak, Pawel" <pawel.baldysiak at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/md.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index a240f16..8e27791 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -3622,6 +3622,7 @@ level_store(struct mddev *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
 		mddev->in_sync = 1;
 		del_timer_sync(&mddev->safemode_timer);
 	}
+	blk_set_stacking_limits(&mddev->queue->limits);
 	pers->run(mddev);
 	set_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags);
 	mddev_resume(mddev);
--
1.8.3.2