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

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Nov 29 14:03:28 UTC 2013


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-3.5.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 4248de3382bbb3fcdc27aacfcd8454283cfb8648 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: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques 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 5f5e10e..84f0f19 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -3681,6 +3681,7 @@ 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





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