[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "md/raid1, raid10: always abort recover on write error." 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/raid1,raid10: always abort recover on write error.

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.7.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From a0e29025a92fa582c468b53101adc6e67ec44423 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:16:29 +1000
Subject: md/raid1,raid10: always abort recover on write error.

commit 2446dba03f9dabe0b477a126cbeb377854785b47 upstream.

Currently we don't abort recovery on a write error if the write error
to the recovering device was triggerd by normal IO (as opposed to
recovery IO).

This means that for one bitmap region, the recovery might write to the
recovering device for a few sectors, then not bother for subsequent
sectors (as it never writes to failed devices).  In this case
the bitmap bit will be cleared, but it really shouldn't.

The result is that if the recovering device fails and is then re-added
(after fixing whatever hardware problem triggerred the failure),
the second recovery won't redo the region it was in the middle of,
so some of the device will not be recovered properly.

If we abort the recovery, the region being processes will be cancelled
(bit not cleared) and the whole region will be retried.

As the bug can result in data corruption the patch is suitable for
-stable.  For kernels prior to 3.11 there is a conflict in raid10.c
which will require care.

Original-from: jiao hui <jiaohui at bwstor.com.cn>
Reported-and-tested-by: jiao hui <jiaohui at bwstor.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/raid1.c  |  8 ++++----
 drivers/md/raid10.c | 11 +++++------
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index 5166401..f4d5e52 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -1500,12 +1500,12 @@ static void error(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev)
 		mddev->degraded++;
 		set_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
-		/*
-		 * if recovery is running, make sure it aborts.
-		 */
-		set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
 	} else
 		set_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags);
+	/*
+	 * if recovery is running, make sure it aborts.
+	 */
+	set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
 	set_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags);
 	printk(KERN_ALERT
 	       "md/raid1:%s: Disk failure on %s, disabling device.\n"
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index 06eeb99..496a46e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -1698,13 +1698,12 @@ static void error(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev)
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
 		return;
 	}
-	if (test_and_clear_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags)) {
+	if (test_and_clear_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags))
 		mddev->degraded++;
-			/*
-		 * if recovery is running, make sure it aborts.
-		 */
-		set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * If recovery is running, make sure it aborts.
+	 */
+	set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
 	set_bit(Blocked, &rdev->flags);
 	set_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags);
 	set_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags);
--
1.9.1