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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>2017-06-05 16:49:39 +1000
committerShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>2017-06-13 10:18:01 -0700
commitcc27b0c78c79680d128dbac79de0d40556d041bb (patch)
tree1f32d4acd29d825eecc1aef90d423cdacea8121c /drivers/md/raid10.c
parentMerge tag 'xtensa-20170612' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa (diff)
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md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start()
If mddev_suspend() races with md_write_start() we can deadlock with mddev_suspend() waiting for the request that is currently in md_write_start() to complete the ->make_request() call, and md_write_start() waiting for the metadata to be updated to mark the array as 'dirty'. As metadata updates done by md_check_recovery() only happen then the mddev_lock() can be claimed, and as mddev_suspend() is often called with the lock held, these threads wait indefinitely for each other. We fix this by having md_write_start() abort if mddev_suspend() is happening, and ->make_request() aborts if md_write_start() aborted. md_make_request() can detect this abort, decrease the ->active_io count, and wait for mddev_suspend(). Reported-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> Fix: 68866e425be2(MD: no sync IO while suspended) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/raid10.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/raid10.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index 797ed60abd5e..52acffa7a06a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -1303,8 +1303,6 @@ static void raid10_write_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
sector_t sectors;
int max_sectors;
- md_write_start(mddev, bio);
-
/*
* Register the new request and wait if the reconstruction
* thread has put up a bar for new requests.
@@ -1525,7 +1523,7 @@ static void __make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio, int sectors)
raid10_write_request(mddev, bio, r10_bio);
}
-static void raid10_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
+static bool raid10_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
{
struct r10conf *conf = mddev->private;
sector_t chunk_mask = (conf->geo.chunk_mask & conf->prev.chunk_mask);
@@ -1534,9 +1532,12 @@ static void raid10_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
if (unlikely(bio->bi_opf & REQ_PREFLUSH)) {
md_flush_request(mddev, bio);
- return;
+ return true;
}
+ if (!md_write_start(mddev, bio))
+ return false;
+
/*
* If this request crosses a chunk boundary, we need to split
* it.
@@ -1553,6 +1554,7 @@ static void raid10_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
/* In case raid10d snuck in to freeze_array */
wake_up(&conf->wait_barrier);
+ return true;
}
static void raid10_status(struct seq_file *seq, struct mddev *mddev)