linux-stable.git/drivers/md, branch linux-2.6.38.y

dm table: reject devices without request fns

2011-06-03T01:34:43+00:00

commit f4808ca99a203f20b4475601748e44b25a65bdec upstream.

This patch adds a check that a block device has a request function
defined before it is used.  Otherwise, misconfiguration can cause an oops.

Because we are allowing devices with zero size e.g. an offline multipath
device as in commit 2cd54d9bedb79a97f014e86c0da393416b264eb3
("dm: allow offline devices") there needs to be an additional check
to ensure devices are initialised.  Some block devices, like a loop
device without a backing file, exist but have no request function.

Reproducer is trivial: dm-mirror on unbound loop device
(no backing file on loop devices)

dmsetup create x --table "0 8 mirror core 2 8 sync 2 /dev/loop0 0 /dev/loop1 0"

and mirror resync will immediatelly cause OOps.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
 ? generic_make_request+0x2bd/0x590
 ? kmem_cache_alloc+0xad/0x190
 submit_bio+0x53/0xe0
 ? bio_add_page+0x3b/0x50
 dispatch_io+0x1ca/0x210 [dm_mod]
 ? read_callback+0x0/0xd0 [dm_mirror]
 dm_io+0xbb/0x290 [dm_mod]
 do_mirror+0x1e0/0x748 [dm_mirror]

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz 
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac 
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

md/bitmap: fix saving of events_cleared and other state.

2011-06-03T01:34:15+00:00

commit 8258c53208d7a9b7207e7d4dae36d2ea384cb278 upstream.

If a bitmap is found to be 'stale' the events_cleared value
is set to match 'events'.
However if the array is degraded this does not get stored on disk.
This can subsequently lead to incorrect behaviour.

So change bitmap_update_sb to always update events_cleared in the
superblock from the known events_cleared.
For neatness also set ->state from ->flags.
This requires updating ->state whenever we update ->flags, which makes
sense anyway.

This is suitable for any active -stable release.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

md: Fix race when creating a new md device.

2011-06-03T01:34:14+00:00

commit b0140891a8cea36469f58d23859e599b1122bd37 upstream.

There is a race when creating an md device by opening /dev/mdXX.

If two processes do this at much the same time they will follow the
call path
  __blkdev_get -> get_gendisk -> kobj_lookup

The first will call
  -> md_probe -> md_alloc -> add_disk -> blk_register_region

and the race happens when the second gets to kobj_lookup after
add_disk has called blk_register_region but before it returns to
md_alloc.

In the case the second will not call md_probe (as the probe is already
done) but will get a handle on the gendisk, return to __blkdev_get
which will then call md_open (via the ->open) pointer.

As mddev->gendisk hasn't been set yet, md_open will think something is
wrong an return with ERESTARTSYS.

This can loop endlessly while the first thread makes no progress
through add_disk.  Nothing is blocking it, but due to scheduler
behaviour it doesn't get a turn.
So this is essentially a live-lock.

We fix this by simply moving the assignment to mddev->gendisk before
the call the add_disk() so md_open doesn't get confused.
Also move blk_queue_flush earlier because add_disk should be as late
as possible.

To make sure that md_open doesn't complete until md_alloc has done all
that is needed, we take mddev->open_mutex during the last part of
md_alloc.  md_open will wait for this.

This can cause a lock-up on boot so Cc:ing for stable.
For 2.6.36 and earlier a different patch will be needed as the
'blk_queue_flush' call isn't there.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Reported-by: Thomas Jarosch 
Tested-by: Thomas Jarosch 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

md: Fix - again - partition detection when array becomes active

2011-02-24T06:26:41+00:00

Revert
    b821eaa572fd737faaf6928ba046e571526c36c6
and
    f3b99be19ded511a1bf05a148276239d9f13eefa

When I wrote the first of these I had a wrong idea about the
lifetime of 'struct block_device'.  It can disappear at any time that
the block device is not open if it falls out of the inode cache.

So relying on the 'size' recorded with it to detect when the
device size has changed and so we need to revalidate, is wrong.

Rather, we really do need the 'changed' attribute stored directly in
the mddev and set/tested as appropriate.

Without this patch, a sequence of:
   mknod / open / close / unlink

(which can cause a block_device to be created and then destroyed)
will result in a rescan of the partition table and consequence removal
and addition of partitions.
Several of these in a row can get udev racing to create and unlink and
other code can get confused.

With the patch, the rescan is only performed when needed and so there
are no races.

This is suitable for any stable kernel from 2.6.35.

Reported-by: "Wojcik, Krzysztof" 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Cc: stable@kernel.org

md: avoid spinlock problem in blk_throtl_exit

2011-02-21T07:25:57+00:00

blk_throtl_exit assumes that ->queue_lock still exists,
so make sure that it does.
To do this, we stop redirecting ->queue_lock to conf->device_lock
and leave it pointing where it is initialised - __queue_lock.

As the blk_plug functions check the ->queue_lock is held, we now
take that spin_lock explicitly around the plug functions.  We don't
need the locking, just the warning removal.

This is needed for any kernel with the blk_throtl code, which is
which is 2.6.37 and later.

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

md: correctly handle probe of an 'mdp' device.

2011-02-16T02:58:51+00:00

'mdp' devices are md devices with preallocated device numbers
for partitions. As such it is possible to mknod and open a partition
before opening the whole device.

this causes  md_probe() to be called with a device number of a
partition, which in-turn calls mddev_find with such a number.

However mddev_find expects the number of a 'whole device' and
does the wrong thing with partition numbers.

So add code to mddev_find to remove the 'partition' part of
a device number and just work with the 'whole device'.

This patch addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28652

Reported-by: hkmaly@bigfoot.com
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Cc:

md: don't set_capacity before array is active.

2011-02-16T02:58:38+00:00

If the desired size of an array is set (via sysfs) before the array is
active (which is the normal sequence), we currrently call set_capacity
immediately.
This means that a subsequent 'open' (as can be caused by some
udev-triggers program) will notice the new size and try to probe for
partitions.  However as the array isn't quite ready yet the read will
fail.  Then when the array is read, as the size doesn't change again
we don't try to re-probe.

So when setting array size via sysfs, only call set_capacity if the
array is already active.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: Fix raid1->raid0 takeover

2011-02-13T23:01:41+00:00

Takeover raid1->raid0 not succeded. Kernel message is shown:
"md/raid0:md126: too few disks (1 of 2) - aborting!"

Problem was that we weren't updating ->raid_disks for that
takeover, unlike all the others.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

FIX: md: process hangs at wait_barrier after 0->10 takeover

2011-02-08T00:49:02+00:00

Following symptoms were observed:
1. After raid0->raid10 takeover operation we have array with 2
missing disks.
When we add disk for rebuild, recovery process starts as expected
but it does not finish- it stops at about 90%, md126_resync process
hangs in "D" state.
2. Similar behavior is when we have mounted raid0 array and we
execute takeover to raid10. After this when we try to unmount array-
it causes process umount hangs in "D"

In scenarios above processes hang at the same function- wait_barrier
in raid10.c.
Process waits in macro "wait_event_lock_irq" until the
"!conf->barrier" condition will be true.
In scenarios above it never happens.

Reason was that at the end of level_store, after calling pers->run,
we call mddev_resume. This calls pers->quiesce(mddev, 0) with
RAID10, that calls lower_barrier.
However raise_barrier hadn't been called on that 'conf' yet,
so conf->barrier becomes negative, which is bad.

This patch introduces setting conf->barrier=1 after takeover
operation. It prevents to become barrier negative after call
lower_barrier().

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md_make_request: don't touch the bio after calling make_request

2011-02-07T22:53:28+00:00

md_make_request was calling bio_sectors() for part_stat_add
after it was calling the make_request function.  This is
bad because the make_request function can free the bio and
because the bi_size field can change around.

The fix here was suggested by Jens Axboe.  It saves the
sector count before the make_request call.  I hit this
with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC turned on while trying to break
his pretty fusionio card.

Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown