[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 214/254] md: Always set RECOVERY_NEEDED when clearing RECOVERY_FROZEN

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Nov 25 10:39:24 UTC 2014


3.16.7-ckt2 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>

commit 45eaf45dfa4850df16bc2e8e7903d89021137f40 upstream.

md_check_recovery will skip any recovery and also clear
MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED if MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN is set.
So when we clear _FROZEN, we must set _NEEDED and ensure that
md_check_recovery gets run.
Otherwise we could miss out on something that is needed.

In particular, this can make it impossible to remove a
failed device from an array is the  'recovery-needed' processing
didn't happen.
Suitable for stable kernels since 3.13.

Reported-and-tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence at stratus.com>
Fixes: 30b8feb730f9b9b3c5de02580897da03f59b6b16
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, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 32fc19c540d4..f5b1af403b5c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -5313,6 +5313,7 @@ static int md_set_readonly(struct mddev *mddev, struct block_device *bdev)
 		printk("md: %s still in use.\n",mdname(mddev));
 		if (did_freeze) {
 			clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN, &mddev->recovery);
+			set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery);
 			md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
 		}
 		err = -EBUSY;
@@ -5327,6 +5328,8 @@ static int md_set_readonly(struct mddev *mddev, struct block_device *bdev)
 		mddev->ro = 1;
 		set_disk_ro(mddev->gendisk, 1);
 		clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN, &mddev->recovery);
+		set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery);
+		md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
 		sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(mddev->sysfs_state);
 		err = 0;
 	}
@@ -5370,6 +5373,7 @@ static int do_md_stop(struct mddev * mddev, int mode,
 		mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
 		if (did_freeze) {
 			clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN, &mddev->recovery);
+			set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery);
 			md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
 		}
 		return -EBUSY;
-- 
2.1.0





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