[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "md: always set MD_RECOVERY_INTR when aborting a reshape or other "resync"." has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Jun 12 14:00:25 UTC 2014


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

    md: always set MD_RECOVERY_INTR when aborting a reshape or other "resync".

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.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 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From d0d09c9d1b7e2fc617453ee2bf0ba6d470aff3ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 13:39:23 +1000
Subject: md: always set MD_RECOVERY_INTR when aborting a reshape or other
 "resync".

commit 3991b31ea072b070081ca3bfa860a077eda67de5 upstream.

If mddev->ro is set, md_to_sync will (correctly) abort.
However in that case MD_RECOVERY_INTR isn't set.

If a RESHAPE had been requested, then ->finish_reshape() will be
called and it will think the reshape was successful even though
nothing happened.

Normally a resync will not be requested if ->ro is set, but if an
array is stopped while a reshape is on-going, then when the array is
started, the reshape will be restarted.  If the array is also set
read-only at this point, the reshape will instantly appear to success,
resulting in data corruption.

Consequently, this patch is suitable for any -stable kernel.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/md.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 78a848cc106e..c95b77132872 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -7353,8 +7353,10 @@ void md_do_sync(struct md_thread *thread)
 	/* just incase thread restarts... */
 	if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_DONE, &mddev->recovery))
 		return;
-	if (mddev->ro) /* never try to sync a read-only array */
+	if (mddev->ro) {/* never try to sync a read-only array */
+		set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
 		return;
+	}

 	if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_SYNC, &mddev->recovery)) {
 		if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_CHECK, &mddev->recovery)) {
--
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