[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "md: bad block list should default to disabled." has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    md: bad block list should default to disabled.

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.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-3.5.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From db3bb7ef944d9659441b4cce1d080651b46adaa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:42:44 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] md: bad block list should default to disabled.

commit 486adf72ccc0c235754923d47a2270c5dcb0c98b upstream.

Maintenance of a bad-block-list currently defaults to 'enabled'
and is then disabled when it cannot be supported.
This is backwards and causes problem for dm-raid which didn't know
to disable it.

So fix the defaults, and only enabled for v1.x metadata which
explicitly has bad blocks enabled.

The problem with dm-raid has been present since badblock support was
added in v3.1, so this patch is suitable for any -stable from 3.1
onwards.

Reported-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/md.c | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 8a6f63c..cc4d68d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1629,8 +1629,8 @@ static int super_1_load(struct md_rdev *rdev, struct md_rdev *refdev, int minor_
 					     sector, count, 1) == 0)
 				return -EINVAL;
 		}
-	} else if (sb->bblog_offset == 0)
-		rdev->badblocks.shift = -1;
+	} else if (sb->bblog_offset != 0)
+		rdev->badblocks.shift = 0;

 	if (!refdev) {
 		ret = 1;
@@ -3280,7 +3280,7 @@ int md_rdev_init(struct md_rdev *rdev)
 	 * be used - I wonder if that matters
 	 */
 	rdev->badblocks.count = 0;
-	rdev->badblocks.shift = 0;
+	rdev->badblocks.shift = -1; /* disabled until explicitly enabled */
 	rdev->badblocks.page = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	seqlock_init(&rdev->badblocks.lock);
 	if (rdev->badblocks.page == NULL)
@@ -3352,9 +3352,6 @@ static struct md_rdev *md_import_device(dev_t newdev, int super_format, int supe
 			goto abort_free;
 		}
 	}
-	if (super_format == -1)
-		/* hot-add for 0.90, or non-persistent: so no badblocks */
-		rdev->badblocks.shift = -1;

 	return rdev;

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1.8.1.2