releases/2.6.23.9/raid5-fix-unending-write-sequence.patch

From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Wed Nov 14 17:08:09 2007
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:59:35 -0800
Subject: raid5: fix unending write sequence
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: joel.bertrand@systella.fr, neilb@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com, stable@kernel.org
Message-ID: <200711150059.lAF0xZ59002692@imap1.linux-foundation.org>


From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

patch 6c55be8b962f1bdc592d579e81fc27b11ea53dfc in mainline.

<debug output from Joel's system>
handling stripe 7629696, state=0x14 cnt=1, pd_idx=2 ops=0:0:0
check 5: state 0x6 toread 0000000000000000 read 0000000000000000 write fffff800ffcffcc0 written 0000000000000000
check 4: state 0x6 toread 0000000000000000 read 0000000000000000 write fffff800fdd4e360 written 0000000000000000
check 3: state 0x1 toread 0000000000000000 read 0000000000000000 write 0000000000000000 written 0000000000000000
check 2: state 0x1 toread 0000000000000000 read 0000000000000000 write 0000000000000000 written 0000000000000000
check 1: state 0x6 toread 0000000000000000 read 0000000000000000 write fffff800ff517e40 written 0000000000000000
check 0: state 0x6 toread 0000000000000000 read 0000000000000000 write fffff800fd4cae60 written 0000000000000000
locked=4 uptodate=2 to_read=0 to_write=4 failed=0 failed_num=0
for sector 7629696, rmw=0 rcw=0
</debug>

These blocks were prepared to be written out, but were never handled in
ops_run_biodrain(), so they remain locked forever.  The operations flags
are all clear which means handle_stripe() thinks nothing else needs to be
done.

This state suggests that the STRIPE_OP_PREXOR bit was sampled 'set' when it
should not have been.  This patch cleans up cases where the code looks at
sh->ops.pending when it should be looking at the consistent stack-based
snapshot of the operations flags.

Report from Joel:
	Resync done. Patch fix this bug.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Bertrand <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 drivers/md/raid5.c |   16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -689,7 +689,8 @@ ops_run_prexor(struct stripe_head *sh, s
 }
 
 static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *
-ops_run_biodrain(struct stripe_head *sh, struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx)
+ops_run_biodrain(struct stripe_head *sh, struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx,
+		 unsigned long pending)
 {
 	int disks = sh->disks;
 	int pd_idx = sh->pd_idx, i;
@@ -697,7 +698,7 @@ ops_run_biodrain(struct stripe_head *sh,
 	/* check if prexor is active which means only process blocks
 	 * that are part of a read-modify-write (Wantprexor)
 	 */
-	int prexor = test_bit(STRIPE_OP_PREXOR, &sh->ops.pending);
+	int prexor = test_bit(STRIPE_OP_PREXOR, &pending);
 
 	pr_debug("%s: stripe %llu\n", __FUNCTION__,
 		(unsigned long long)sh->sector);
@@ -774,7 +775,8 @@ static void ops_complete_write(void *str
 }
 
 static void
-ops_run_postxor(struct stripe_head *sh, struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx)
+ops_run_postxor(struct stripe_head *sh, struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx,
+		unsigned long pending)
 {
 	/* kernel stack size limits the total number of disks */
 	int disks = sh->disks;
@@ -782,7 +784,7 @@ ops_run_postxor(struct stripe_head *sh, 
 
 	int count = 0, pd_idx = sh->pd_idx, i;
 	struct page *xor_dest;
-	int prexor = test_bit(STRIPE_OP_PREXOR, &sh->ops.pending);
+	int prexor = test_bit(STRIPE_OP_PREXOR, &pending);
 	unsigned long flags;
 	dma_async_tx_callback callback;
 
@@ -809,7 +811,7 @@ ops_run_postxor(struct stripe_head *sh, 
 	}
 
 	/* check whether this postxor is part of a write */
-	callback = test_bit(STRIPE_OP_BIODRAIN, &sh->ops.pending) ?
+	callback = test_bit(STRIPE_OP_BIODRAIN, &pending) ?
 		ops_complete_write : ops_complete_postxor;
 
 	/* 1/ if we prexor'd then the dest is reused as a source
@@ -897,12 +899,12 @@ static void raid5_run_ops(struct stripe_
 		tx = ops_run_prexor(sh, tx);
 
 	if (test_bit(STRIPE_OP_BIODRAIN, &pending)) {
-		tx = ops_run_biodrain(sh, tx);
+		tx = ops_run_biodrain(sh, tx, pending);
 		overlap_clear++;
 	}
 
 	if (test_bit(STRIPE_OP_POSTXOR, &pending))
-		ops_run_postxor(sh, tx);
+		ops_run_postxor(sh, tx, pending);
 
 	if (test_bit(STRIPE_OP_CHECK, &pending))
 		ops_run_check(sh);