[D/E] [PATCH] md raid0/linear: Mark array as 'broken' and fail BIOs if a member is gone
Guilherme G. Piccoli
gpiccoli at canonical.com
Sun Oct 13 23:47:07 UTC 2019
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1847773
Currently md raid0/linear are not provided with any mechanism to validate
if an array member got removed or failed. The driver keeps sending BIOs
regardless of the state of array members, and kernel shows state 'clean'
in the 'array_state' sysfs attribute. This leads to the following
situation: if a raid0/linear array member is removed and the array is
mounted, some user writing to this array won't realize that errors are
happening unless they check dmesg or perform one fsync per written file.
Despite udev signaling the member device is gone, 'mdadm' cannot issue the
STOP_ARRAY ioctl successfully, given the array is mounted.
In other words, no -EIO is returned and writes (except direct ones) appear
normal. Meaning the user might think the wrote data is correctly stored in
the array, but instead garbage was written given that raid0 does stripping
(and so, it requires all its members to be working in order to not corrupt
data). For md/linear, writes to the available members will work fine, but
if the writes go to the missing member(s), it'll cause a file corruption
situation, whereas the portion of the writes to the missing devices aren't
written effectively.
This patch changes this behavior: we check if the block device's gendisk
is UP when submitting the BIO to the array member, and if it isn't, we flag
the md device as MD_BROKEN and fail subsequent I/Os to that device; a read
request to the array requiring data from a valid member is still completed.
While flagging the device as MD_BROKEN, we also show a rate-limited warning
in the kernel log.
A new array state 'broken' was added too: it mimics the state 'clean' in
every aspect, being useful only to distinguish if the array has some member
missing. We rely on the MD_BROKEN flag to put the array in the 'broken'
state. This state cannot be written in 'array_state' as it just shows
one or more members of the array are missing but acts like 'clean', it
wouldn't make sense to write it.
With this patch, the filesystem reacts much faster to the event of missing
array member: after some I/O errors, ext4 for instance aborts the journal
and prevents corruption. Without this change, we're able to keep writing
in the disk and after a machine reboot, e2fsck shows some severe fs errors
that demand fixing. This patch was tested in ext4 and xfs filesystems, and
requires a 'mdadm' counterpart to handle the 'broken' state.
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving at fb.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving at fb.com>
(backported from commit 62f7b1989c02feed9274131b2fd5e990de4aba6f)
[gpiccoli: minimal code adjustment in md.c - new kernels have an extra
check in the if() statement inside array_state_show().]
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli at canonical.com>
---
drivers/md/md-linear.c | 5 +++++
drivers/md/md.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
drivers/md/md.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
drivers/md/raid0.c | 6 ++++++
4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/md-linear.c b/drivers/md/md-linear.c
index d45c697c0ebe..708c3f23da93 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md-linear.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md-linear.c
@@ -266,6 +266,11 @@ static bool linear_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
bio_sector < start_sector))
goto out_of_bounds;
+ if (unlikely(is_mddev_broken(tmp_dev->rdev, "linear"))) {
+ bio_io_error(bio);
+ return true;
+ }
+
if (unlikely(bio_end_sector(bio) > end_sector)) {
/* This bio crosses a device boundary, so we have to split it */
struct bio *split = bio_split(bio, end_sector - bio_sector,
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 84aec3647994..b3e170fd9873 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -312,6 +312,11 @@ static blk_qc_t md_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
struct mddev *mddev = q->queuedata;
unsigned int sectors;
+ if (unlikely(test_bit(MD_BROKEN, &mddev->flags)) && (rw == WRITE)) {
+ bio_io_error(bio);
+ return BLK_QC_T_NONE;
+ }
+
blk_queue_split(q, &bio);
if (mddev == NULL || mddev->pers == NULL) {
@@ -4087,12 +4092,17 @@ __ATTR_PREALLOC(resync_start, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR,
* active-idle
* like active, but no writes have been seen for a while (100msec).
*
+ * broken
+ * RAID0/LINEAR-only: same as clean, but array is missing a member.
+ * It's useful because RAID0/LINEAR mounted-arrays aren't stopped
+ * when a member is gone, so this state will at least alert the
+ * user that something is wrong.
*/
enum array_state { clear, inactive, suspended, readonly, read_auto, clean, active,
- write_pending, active_idle, bad_word};
+ write_pending, active_idle, broken, bad_word};
static char *array_states[] = {
"clear", "inactive", "suspended", "readonly", "read-auto", "clean", "active",
- "write-pending", "active-idle", NULL };
+ "write-pending", "active-idle", "broken", NULL };
static int match_word(const char *word, char **list)
{
@@ -4108,7 +4118,7 @@ array_state_show(struct mddev *mddev, char *page)
{
enum array_state st = inactive;
- if (mddev->pers)
+ if (mddev->pers) {
switch(mddev->ro) {
case 1:
st = readonly;
@@ -4128,7 +4138,10 @@ array_state_show(struct mddev *mddev, char *page)
st = active;
spin_unlock(&mddev->lock);
}
- else {
+
+ if (test_bit(MD_BROKEN, &mddev->flags) && st == clean)
+ st = broken;
+ } else {
if (list_empty(&mddev->disks) &&
mddev->raid_disks == 0 &&
mddev->dev_sectors == 0)
@@ -4242,6 +4255,7 @@ array_state_store(struct mddev *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
break;
case write_pending:
case active_idle:
+ case broken:
/* these cannot be set */
break;
}
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 257cb4c9e22b..5d82a86a61cc 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -243,6 +243,9 @@ enum mddev_flags {
MD_UPDATING_SB, /* md_check_recovery is updating the metadata
* without explicitly holding reconfig_mutex.
*/
+ MD_BROKEN, /* This is used in RAID-0/LINEAR only, to stop
+ * I/O in case an array member is gone/failed.
+ */
};
enum mddev_sb_flags {
@@ -719,6 +722,19 @@ extern void md_kick_rdev_from_array(struct md_rdev * rdev);
struct md_rdev *md_find_rdev_nr_rcu(struct mddev *mddev, int nr);
struct md_rdev *md_find_rdev_rcu(struct mddev *mddev, dev_t dev);
+static inline bool is_mddev_broken(struct md_rdev *rdev, const char *md_type)
+{
+ int flags = rdev->bdev->bd_disk->flags;
+
+ if (!(flags & GENHD_FL_UP)) {
+ if (!test_and_set_bit(MD_BROKEN, &rdev->mddev->flags))
+ pr_warn("md: %s: %s array has a missing/failed member\n",
+ mdname(rdev->mddev), md_type);
+ return true;
+ }
+ return false;
+}
+
static inline void rdev_dec_pending(struct md_rdev *rdev, struct mddev *mddev)
{
int faulty = test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags);
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid0.c b/drivers/md/raid0.c
index d5bdc79e0835..b28040e82874 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid0.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid0.c
@@ -594,6 +594,12 @@ static bool raid0_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
zone = find_zone(mddev->private, §or);
tmp_dev = map_sector(mddev, zone, sector, §or);
+
+ if (unlikely(is_mddev_broken(tmp_dev, "raid0"))) {
+ bio_io_error(bio);
+ return true;
+ }
+
bio_set_dev(bio, tmp_dev->bdev);
bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = sector + zone->dev_start +
tmp_dev->data_offset;
--
2.23.0
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