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authorLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>2010-09-01 15:12:12 +0200
committerPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>2010-10-14 18:38:28 +0200
commit3f3a9b849d2b703934c07fa17f5eac2dc37c1f6b (patch)
tree12aff51d5d92a0642232205b95eb9e55e85dd2bf /drivers/block
parentdrbd: fix race between deconfiguring and reconfiguring network (diff)
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drbd: fix race on meta-data update
The race: drbd_md_mark_dirty() drbd_md_sync() if (!test_and_clear_bit(MD_DIRTY, &mdev->flags)) return; drbd_md_sync_page_io(mdev, mdev->ldev, sector, WRITE) ==> RACE clear_bit(MD_DIRTY, &mdev->flags); <== spurious Fixed by removing the spurious clear_bit. Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
index 23878ffc43c8..73c905d0ef18 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
@@ -3446,12 +3446,9 @@ void drbd_md_sync(struct drbd_conf *mdev)
D_ASSERT(drbd_md_ss__(mdev, mdev->ldev) == mdev->ldev->md.md_offset);
sector = mdev->ldev->md.md_offset;
- if (drbd_md_sync_page_io(mdev, mdev->ldev, sector, WRITE)) {
- clear_bit(MD_DIRTY, &mdev->flags);
- } else {
+ if (!drbd_md_sync_page_io(mdev, mdev->ldev, sector, WRITE)) {
/* this was a try anyways ... */
dev_err(DEV, "meta data update failed!\n");
-
drbd_chk_io_error(mdev, 1, TRUE);
}