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<title>md: forbid a RAID5 from having both a bitmap and a journal.</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:26:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-17T03:24:09+00:00</published>
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commit 230b55fa8d64007339319539f8f8e68114d08529 upstream.

Having both a bitmap and a journal is pointless.
Attempting to do so can corrupt the bitmap if the journal
replay happens before the bitmap is initialized.
Rather than try to avoid this corruption, simply
refuse to allow arrays with both a bitmap and a journal.
So:
 - if raid5_run sees both are present, fail.
 - if adding a bitmap finds a journal is present, fail
 - if adding a journal finds a bitmap is present, fail.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Acked-by: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 230b55fa8d64007339319539f8f8e68114d08529 upstream.

Having both a bitmap and a journal is pointless.
Attempting to do so can corrupt the bitmap if the journal
replay happens before the bitmap is initialized.
Rather than try to avoid this corruption, simply
refuse to allow arrays with both a bitmap and a journal.
So:
 - if raid5_run sees both are present, fail.
 - if adding a bitmap finds a journal is present, fail
 - if adding a journal finds a bitmap is present, fail.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Acked-by: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: recover data from backing when data is clean</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rui Hua</name>
<email>huarui.dev@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-24T23:14:26+00:00</published>
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commit e393aa2446150536929140739f09c6ecbcbea7f0 upstream.

When we send a read request and hit the clean data in cache device, there
is a situation called cache read race in bcache(see the commit in the tail
of cache_look_up(), the following explaination just copy from there):
The bucket we're reading from might be reused while our bio is in flight,
and we could then end up reading the wrong data. We guard against this
by checking (in bch_cache_read_endio()) if the pointer is stale again;
if so, we treat it as an error (s-&gt;iop.error = -EINTR) and reread from
the backing device (but we don't pass that error up anywhere)

It should be noted that cache read race happened under normal
circumstances, not the circumstance when SSD failed, it was counted
and shown in  /sys/fs/bcache/XXX/internal/cache_read_races.

Without this patch, when we use writeback mode, we will never reread from
the backing device when cache read race happened, until the whole cache
device is clean, because the condition
(s-&gt;recoverable &amp;&amp; (dc &amp;&amp; !atomic_read(&amp;dc-&gt;has_dirty))) is false in
cached_dev_read_error(). In this situation, the s-&gt;iop.error(= -EINTR)
will be passed up, at last, user will receive -EINTR when it's bio end,
this is not suitable, and wield to up-application.

In this patch, we use s-&gt;read_dirty_data to judge whether the read
request hit dirty data in cache device, it is safe to reread data from
the backing device when the read request hit clean data. This can not
only handle cache read race, but also recover data when failed read
request from cache device.

[edited by mlyle to fix up whitespace, commit log title, comment
spelling]

Fixes: d59b23795933 ("bcache: only permit to recovery read error when cache device is clean")
Signed-off-by: Hua Rui &lt;huarui.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e393aa2446150536929140739f09c6ecbcbea7f0 upstream.

When we send a read request and hit the clean data in cache device, there
is a situation called cache read race in bcache(see the commit in the tail
of cache_look_up(), the following explaination just copy from there):
The bucket we're reading from might be reused while our bio is in flight,
and we could then end up reading the wrong data. We guard against this
by checking (in bch_cache_read_endio()) if the pointer is stale again;
if so, we treat it as an error (s-&gt;iop.error = -EINTR) and reread from
the backing device (but we don't pass that error up anywhere)

It should be noted that cache read race happened under normal
circumstances, not the circumstance when SSD failed, it was counted
and shown in  /sys/fs/bcache/XXX/internal/cache_read_races.

Without this patch, when we use writeback mode, we will never reread from
the backing device when cache read race happened, until the whole cache
device is clean, because the condition
(s-&gt;recoverable &amp;&amp; (dc &amp;&amp; !atomic_read(&amp;dc-&gt;has_dirty))) is false in
cached_dev_read_error(). In this situation, the s-&gt;iop.error(= -EINTR)
will be passed up, at last, user will receive -EINTR when it's bio end,
this is not suitable, and wield to up-application.

In this patch, we use s-&gt;read_dirty_data to judge whether the read
request hit dirty data in cache device, it is safe to reread data from
the backing device when the read request hit clean data. This can not
only handle cache read race, but also recover data when failed read
request from cache device.

[edited by mlyle to fix up whitespace, commit log title, comment
spelling]

Fixes: d59b23795933 ("bcache: only permit to recovery read error when cache device is clean")
Signed-off-by: Hua Rui &lt;huarui.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: only permit to recovery read error when cache device is clean</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
<email>colyli@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-30T21:46:31+00:00</published>
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commit d59b23795933678c9638fd20c942d2b4f3cd6185 upstream.

When bcache does read I/Os, for example in writeback or writethrough mode,
if a read request on cache device is failed, bcache will try to recovery
the request by reading from cached device. If the data on cached device is
not synced with cache device, then requester will get a stale data.

For critical storage system like database, providing stale data from
recovery may result an application level data corruption, which is
unacceptible.

With this patch, for a failed read request in writeback or writethrough
mode, recovery a recoverable read request only happens when cache device
is clean. That is to say, all data on cached device is up to update.

For other cache modes in bcache, read request will never hit
cached_dev_read_error(), they don't need this patch.

Please note, because cache mode can be switched arbitrarily in run time, a
writethrough mode might be switched from a writeback mode. Therefore
checking dc-&gt;has_data in writethrough mode still makes sense.

Changelog:
V4: Fix parens error pointed by Michael Lyle.
v3: By response from Kent Oversteet, he thinks recovering stale data is a
    bug to fix, and option to permit it is unnecessary. So this version
    the sysfs file is removed.
v2: rename sysfs entry from allow_stale_data_on_failure  to
    allow_stale_data_on_failure, and fix the confusing commit log.
v1: initial patch posted.

[small change to patch comment spelling by mlyle]

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Reported-by: Arne Wolf &lt;awolf@lenovo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nix &lt;nix@esperi.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kai Krakow &lt;hurikhan77@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Wheeler &lt;bcache@lists.ewheeler.net&gt;
Cc: Junhui Tang &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d59b23795933678c9638fd20c942d2b4f3cd6185 upstream.

When bcache does read I/Os, for example in writeback or writethrough mode,
if a read request on cache device is failed, bcache will try to recovery
the request by reading from cached device. If the data on cached device is
not synced with cache device, then requester will get a stale data.

For critical storage system like database, providing stale data from
recovery may result an application level data corruption, which is
unacceptible.

With this patch, for a failed read request in writeback or writethrough
mode, recovery a recoverable read request only happens when cache device
is clean. That is to say, all data on cached device is up to update.

For other cache modes in bcache, read request will never hit
cached_dev_read_error(), they don't need this patch.

Please note, because cache mode can be switched arbitrarily in run time, a
writethrough mode might be switched from a writeback mode. Therefore
checking dc-&gt;has_data in writethrough mode still makes sense.

Changelog:
V4: Fix parens error pointed by Michael Lyle.
v3: By response from Kent Oversteet, he thinks recovering stale data is a
    bug to fix, and option to permit it is unnecessary. So this version
    the sysfs file is removed.
v2: rename sysfs entry from allow_stale_data_on_failure  to
    allow_stale_data_on_failure, and fix the confusing commit log.
v1: initial patch posted.

[small change to patch comment spelling by mlyle]

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Reported-by: Arne Wolf &lt;awolf@lenovo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nix &lt;nix@esperi.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kai Krakow &lt;hurikhan77@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Wheeler &lt;bcache@lists.ewheeler.net&gt;
Cc: Junhui Tang &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: Fix building error on MIPS</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huacai Chen</name>
<email>chenhc@lemote.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-24T23:14:25+00:00</published>
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commit cf33c1ee5254c6a430bc1538232b49c3ea13e613 upstream.

This patch try to fix the building error on MIPS. The reason is MIPS
has already defined the PTR macro, which conflicts with the PTR macro
in include/uapi/linux/bcache.h.

[fixed by mlyle: corrected a line-length issue]

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit cf33c1ee5254c6a430bc1538232b49c3ea13e613 upstream.

This patch try to fix the building error on MIPS. The reason is MIPS
has already defined the PTR macro, which conflicts with the PTR macro
in include/uapi/linux/bcache.h.

[fixed by mlyle: corrected a line-length issue]

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>raid1: prevent freeze_array/wait_all_barriers deadlock</title>
<updated>2017-11-30T08:40:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nate Dailey</name>
<email>nate.dailey@stratus.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-17T12:17:03+00:00</published>
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commit f6eca2d43ed694ab8124dd24c88277f7eca93b7d upstream.

If freeze_array is attempted in the middle of close_sync/
wait_all_barriers, deadlock can occur.

freeze_array will wait for nr_pending and nr_queued to line up.
wait_all_barriers increments nr_pending for each barrier bucket, one
at a time, but doesn't actually issue IO that could be counted in
nr_queued. So freeze_array is blocked until wait_all_barriers
completes and allow_all_barriers runs. At the same time, when
_wait_barrier sees array_frozen == 1, it stops and waits for
freeze_array to complete.

Prevent the deadlock by making close_sync call _wait_barrier and
_allow_barrier for one bucket at a time, instead of deferring the
_allow_barrier calls until after all _wait_barriers are complete.

Signed-off-by: Nate Dailey &lt;nate.dailey@stratus.com&gt;
Fix: fd76863e37fe(RAID1: a new I/O barrier implementation to remove resync window)
Reviewed-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f6eca2d43ed694ab8124dd24c88277f7eca93b7d upstream.

If freeze_array is attempted in the middle of close_sync/
wait_all_barriers, deadlock can occur.

freeze_array will wait for nr_pending and nr_queued to line up.
wait_all_barriers increments nr_pending for each barrier bucket, one
at a time, but doesn't actually issue IO that could be counted in
nr_queued. So freeze_array is blocked until wait_all_barriers
completes and allow_all_barriers runs. At the same time, when
_wait_barrier sees array_frozen == 1, it stops and waits for
freeze_array to complete.

Prevent the deadlock by making close_sync call _wait_barrier and
_allow_barrier for one bucket at a time, instead of deferring the
_allow_barrier calls until after all _wait_barriers are complete.

Signed-off-by: Nate Dailey &lt;nate.dailey@stratus.com&gt;
Fix: fd76863e37fe(RAID1: a new I/O barrier implementation to remove resync window)
Reviewed-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md/bitmap: revert a patch</title>
<updated>2017-11-30T08:40:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaohua Li</name>
<email>shli@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-17T02:03:44+00:00</published>
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commit 938b533d479e7428b7fa1b8179283646d2e2c53d upstream.

This reverts commit 8031c3ddc70a. That patches doesn't work well if PAGE_SIZE &gt;
4k. We will fix the original problem with a different approach.

Fix: 8031c3ddc70a(md/bitmap: copy correct data for bitmap super)
Reported-by: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 938b533d479e7428b7fa1b8179283646d2e2c53d upstream.

This reverts commit 8031c3ddc70a. That patches doesn't work well if PAGE_SIZE &gt;
4k. We will fix the original problem with a different approach.

Fix: 8031c3ddc70a(md/bitmap: copy correct data for bitmap super)
Reported-by: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md: don't check MD_SB_CHANGE_CLEAN in md_allow_write</title>
<updated>2017-11-30T08:40:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artur Paszkiewicz</name>
<email>artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-26T13:56:54+00:00</published>
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commit b90f6ff080c52e2f05364210733df120e3c4e597 upstream.

Only MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING should be used to wait for transition from
clean to dirty. Checking also MD_SB_CHANGE_CLEAN is unnecessary and can
race with e.g. md_do_sync(). This sporadically causes a hang when
changing consistency policy during resync:

INFO: task mdadm:6183 blocked for more than 30 seconds.
      Not tainted 4.14.0-rc3+ #391
"echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
mdadm           D12752  6183   6022 0x00000000
Call Trace:
 __schedule+0x93f/0x990
 schedule+0x6b/0x90
 md_allow_write+0x100/0x130 [md_mod]
 ? do_wait_intr_irq+0x90/0x90
 resize_stripes+0x3a/0x5b0 [raid456]
 ? kernfs_fop_write+0xbe/0x180
 raid5_change_consistency_policy+0xa6/0x200 [raid456]
 consistency_policy_store+0x2e/0x70 [md_mod]
 md_attr_store+0x90/0xc0 [md_mod]
 sysfs_kf_write+0x42/0x50
 kernfs_fop_write+0x119/0x180
 __vfs_write+0x28/0x110
 ? rcu_sync_lockdep_assert+0x12/0x60
 ? __sb_start_write+0x15a/0x1c0
 ? vfs_write+0xa3/0x1a0
 vfs_write+0xb4/0x1a0
 SyS_write+0x49/0xa0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad

Fixes: 2214c260c72b ("md: don't return -EAGAIN in md_allow_write for external metadata arrays")
Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz &lt;artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b90f6ff080c52e2f05364210733df120e3c4e597 upstream.

Only MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING should be used to wait for transition from
clean to dirty. Checking also MD_SB_CHANGE_CLEAN is unnecessary and can
race with e.g. md_do_sync(). This sporadically causes a hang when
changing consistency policy during resync:

INFO: task mdadm:6183 blocked for more than 30 seconds.
      Not tainted 4.14.0-rc3+ #391
"echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
mdadm           D12752  6183   6022 0x00000000
Call Trace:
 __schedule+0x93f/0x990
 schedule+0x6b/0x90
 md_allow_write+0x100/0x130 [md_mod]
 ? do_wait_intr_irq+0x90/0x90
 resize_stripes+0x3a/0x5b0 [raid456]
 ? kernfs_fop_write+0xbe/0x180
 raid5_change_consistency_policy+0xa6/0x200 [raid456]
 consistency_policy_store+0x2e/0x70 [md_mod]
 md_attr_store+0x90/0xc0 [md_mod]
 sysfs_kf_write+0x42/0x50
 kernfs_fop_write+0x119/0x180
 __vfs_write+0x28/0x110
 ? rcu_sync_lockdep_assert+0x12/0x60
 ? __sb_start_write+0x15a/0x1c0
 ? vfs_write+0xa3/0x1a0
 vfs_write+0xb4/0x1a0
 SyS_write+0x49/0xa0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad

Fixes: 2214c260c72b ("md: don't return -EAGAIN in md_allow_write for external metadata arrays")
Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz &lt;artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>md: fix deadlock error in recent patch.</title>
<updated>2017-11-30T08:40:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-05T05:23:16+00:00</published>
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commit d47c8ad261f787af22a220ffcc2d07afba809223 upstream.

A recent patch aimed to cause md_write_start() to fail (rather than
block) when the mddev was suspending, so as to avoid deadlocks.
Unfortunately the test in wait_event() was wrong, and it didn't change
behaviour at all.

We wait_event() must wait until the metadata is written OR the array is
suspending.

Fixes: cc27b0c78c79 ("md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start()")
Reported-by: Xiao Ni &lt;xni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d47c8ad261f787af22a220ffcc2d07afba809223 upstream.

A recent patch aimed to cause md_write_start() to fail (rather than
block) when the mddev was suspending, so as to avoid deadlocks.
Unfortunately the test in wait_event() was wrong, and it didn't change
behaviour at all.

We wait_event() must wait until the metadata is written OR the array is
suspending.

Fixes: cc27b0c78c79 ("md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start()")
Reported-by: Xiao Ni &lt;xni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>bcache: check ca-&gt;alloc_thread initialized before wake up it</title>
<updated>2017-11-30T08:40:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
<email>colyli@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-13T23:35:29+00:00</published>
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commit 91af8300d9c1d7c6b6a2fd754109e08d4798b8d8 upstream.

In bcache code, sysfs entries are created before all resources get
allocated, e.g. allocation thread of a cache set.

There is posibility for NULL pointer deference if a resource is accessed
but which is not initialized yet. Indeed Jorg Bornschein catches one on
cache set allocation thread and gets a kernel oops.

The reason for this bug is, when bch_bucket_alloc() is called during
cache set registration and attaching, ca-&gt;alloc_thread is not properly
allocated and initialized yet, call wake_up_process() on ca-&gt;alloc_thread
triggers NULL pointer deference failure. A simple and fast fix is, before
waking up ca-&gt;alloc_thread, checking whether it is allocated, and only
wake up ca-&gt;alloc_thread when it is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Jorg Bornschein &lt;jb@capsec.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 91af8300d9c1d7c6b6a2fd754109e08d4798b8d8 upstream.

In bcache code, sysfs entries are created before all resources get
allocated, e.g. allocation thread of a cache set.

There is posibility for NULL pointer deference if a resource is accessed
but which is not initialized yet. Indeed Jorg Bornschein catches one on
cache set allocation thread and gets a kernel oops.

The reason for this bug is, when bch_bucket_alloc() is called during
cache set registration and attaching, ca-&gt;alloc_thread is not properly
allocated and initialized yet, call wake_up_process() on ca-&gt;alloc_thread
triggers NULL pointer deference failure. A simple and fast fix is, before
waking up ca-&gt;alloc_thread, checking whether it is allocated, and only
wake up ca-&gt;alloc_thread when it is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Jorg Bornschein &lt;jb@capsec.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>dm: discard support requires all targets in a table support discards</title>
<updated>2017-11-30T08:40:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-14T20:40:52+00:00</published>
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commit 8a74d29d541cd86569139c6f3f44b2d210458071 upstream.

A DM device with a mix of discard capabilities (due to some underlying
devices not having discard support) _should_ just return -EOPNOTSUPP for
the region of the device that doesn't support discards (even if only by
way of the underlying driver formally not supporting discards).  BUT,
that does ask the underlying driver to handle something that it never
advertised support for.  In doing so we're exposing users to the
potential for a underlying disk driver hanging if/when a discard is
issued a the device that is incapable and never claimed to support
discards.

Fix this by requiring that each DM target in a DM table provide discard
support as a prereq for a DM device to advertise support for discards.

This may cause some configurations that were happily supporting discards
(even in the face of a mix of discard support) to stop supporting
discards -- but the risk of users hitting driver hangs, and forced
reboots, outweighs supporting those fringe mixed discard
configurations.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8a74d29d541cd86569139c6f3f44b2d210458071 upstream.

A DM device with a mix of discard capabilities (due to some underlying
devices not having discard support) _should_ just return -EOPNOTSUPP for
the region of the device that doesn't support discards (even if only by
way of the underlying driver formally not supporting discards).  BUT,
that does ask the underlying driver to handle something that it never
advertised support for.  In doing so we're exposing users to the
potential for a underlying disk driver hanging if/when a discard is
issued a the device that is incapable and never claimed to support
discards.

Fix this by requiring that each DM target in a DM table provide discard
support as a prereq for a DM device to advertise support for discards.

This may cause some configurations that were happily supporting discards
(even in the face of a mix of discard support) to stop supporting
discards -- but the risk of users hitting driver hangs, and forced
reboots, outweighs supporting those fringe mixed discard
configurations.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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