linux-stable.git/drivers/md/md.c, branch linux-3.9.y

md: bad block list should default to disabled.

2013-05-08T03:33:12+00:00

commit 486adf72ccc0c235754923d47a2270c5dcb0c98b upstream.

Maintenance of a bad-block-list currently defaults to 'enabled'
and is then disabled when it cannot be supported.
This is backwards and causes problem for dm-raid which didn't know
to disable it.

So fix the defaults, and only enabled for v1.x metadata which
explicitly has bad blocks enabled.

The problem with dm-raid has been present since badblock support was
added in v3.1, so this patch is suitable for any -stable from 3.1
onwards.

Reported-by: Jonathan Brassow 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

MD: Prevent sysfs operations on uninitialized kobjects

2013-03-20T02:17:57+00:00

MD: Prevent sysfs operations on uninitialized kobjects

Device-mapper does not use sysfs; but when device-mapper is leveraging
MD's RAID personalities, MD sometimes attempts to update sysfs.  This
patch adds checks for 'mddev-kobj.sd' in sysfs_[un]link_rdev to ensure
it is about to operate on something valid.  This patch also checks for
'mddev->kobj.sd' before calling 'sysfs_notify' in 'remove_and_add_spares'.
Although 'sysfs_notify' already makes this check, doing so in
'remove_and_add_spares' prevents an additional mutex operation.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: expedite metadata update when switching read-auto -> active

2013-02-28T00:59:03+00:00

If something has failed while the array was read-auto,
then when we switch to 'active' we need to update the metadata.
This will happen anyway but it is good to expedite it, and
also to ensure any failed device has been released by the
underlying device before we try to action the ioctl which
caused us to switch to 'active' mode.

Reported-by: Joe Lawrence 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: fix two bugs when attempting to resize RAID0 array.

2013-02-26T00:55:40+00:00

You cannot resize a RAID0 array (in terms of making the devices
bigger), but the code doesn't entirely stop you.
So:

 disable setting of the available size on each device for
 RAID0 and Linear devices.  This must not change as doing so
 can change the effective layout of data.

 Make sure that the size that raid0_size() reports is accurate,
 but rounding devices sizes to chunk sizes.  As the device sizes
 cannot change now, this isn't so important, but it is best to be
 safe.

Without this change:
  mdadm --grow /dev/md0 -z max
  mdadm --grow /dev/md0 -Z max
  then read to the end of the array

can cause a BUG in a RAID0 array.

These bugs have been present ever since it became possible
to resize any device, which is a long time.  So the fix is
suitable for any -stable kerenl.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: protect against crash upon fsync on ro array

2013-02-21T02:28:09+00:00

If an fsync occurs on a read-only array, we need to send a
completion for the IO and may not increment the active IO count.
Otherwise, we hit a bug trace and can't stop the MD array anymore.

By advice of Christoph Hellwig we return success upon a flush
request but we return -EROFS for other writes.
We detect flush requests by checking if the bio has zero sectors.

This patch is suitable to any -stable kernel to which it applies.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Cc: NeilBrown 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Riemer 
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings 
Acked-by: Paul Menzel 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

Merge tag 'md-3.8' of git://neil.brown.name/md

2012-12-18T17:32:44+00:00

Pull md update from Neil Brown:
 "Mostly just little fixes.  Probably biggest part is AVX accelerated
  RAID6 calculations."

* tag 'md-3.8' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/raid5: add blktrace calls
  md/raid5: use async_tx_quiesce() instead of open-coding it.
  md: Use ->curr_resync as last completed request when cleanly aborting resync.
  lib/raid6: build proper files on corresponding arch
  lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrome functions
  lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized recovery functions
  md: Update checkpoint of resync/recovery based on time.
  md:Add place to update ->recovery_cp.
  md.c: re-indent various 'switch' statements.
  md: close race between removing and adding a device.
  md: removed unused variable in calc_sb_1_csm.

Merge branch 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2012-12-17T21:39:11+00:00

Pull block driver update from Jens Axboe:
 "Now that the core bits are in, here are the driver bits for 3.8.  The
  branch contains:

   - A huge pile of drbd bits that were dumped from the 3.7 merge
     window.  Following that, it was both made perfectly clear that
     there is going to be no more over-the-wall pulls and how the
     situation on individual pulls can be improved.

   - A few cleanups from Akinobu Mita for drbd and cciss.

   - Queue improvement for loop from Lukas.  This grew into adding a
     generic interface for waiting/checking an even with a specific
     lock, allowing this to be pulled out of md and now loop and drbd is
     also using it.

   - A few fixes for xen back/front block driver from Roger Pau Monne.

   - Partition improvements from Stephen Warren, allowing partiion UUID
     to be used as an identifier."

* 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (609 commits)
  drbd: update Kconfig to match current dependencies
  drbd: Fix drbdsetup wait-connect, wait-sync etc... commands
  drbd: close race between drbd_set_role and drbd_connect
  drbd: respect no-md-barriers setting also when changed online via disk-options
  drbd: Remove obsolete check
  drbd: fixup after wait_even_lock_irq() addition to generic code
  loop: Limit the number of requests in the bio list
  wait: add wait_event_lock_irq() interface
  xen-blkfront: free allocated page
  xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code
  block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions
  init: reduce PARTUUID min length to 1 from 36
  block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
  cciss: use check_signature()
  cciss: cleanup bitops usage
  drbd: use copy_highpage
  drbd: if the replication link breaks during handshake, keep retrying
  drbd: check return of kmalloc in receive_uuids
  drbd: Broadcast sync progress no more often than once per second
  drbd: don't try to clear bits once the disk has failed
  ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2012-12-13T20:00:02+00:00

Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
  code elimination."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  HOWTO: fix double words typo
  x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
  propagate name change to comments in kernel source
  doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
  treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
  treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
  wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
  messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
  scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
  Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
  radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
  doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
  various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
  Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
  eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
  various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
  doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
  target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
  treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
  treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
  ...

md: Use ->curr_resync as last completed request when cleanly aborting resync.

2012-12-13T08:52:11+00:00

If a resync is aborted cleanly, ->curr_resync is a reliable
record of where we got up to.
If there was an error it is less reliable but we always know that
->curr_resync_completed is safe.

So add a flag MD_RECOVERY_ERROR to differentiate between these cases
and set recovery_cp accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: Update checkpoint of resync/recovery based on time.

2012-12-13T05:41:40+00:00

md will current only only checkpoint recovery or resync ever 1/16th
of the device size.  As devices get larger this can become a long time
an so a lot of work that might need to be duplicated after a shutdown.

So add a time-based checkpoint.  Every 5 minutes limits the amount of
duplicated effort to at most 5 minutes, and has almost zero impact on
performance.

[changelog entry re-written by NeilBrown]

Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown