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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>2017-06-05 08:49:39 +0200
committerShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>2017-06-13 19:18:01 +0200
commitcc27b0c78c79680d128dbac79de0d40556d041bb (patch)
tree1f32d4acd29d825eecc1aef90d423cdacea8121c /drivers/md/multipath.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/multipath.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/multipath.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/multipath.c b/drivers/md/multipath.c
index e95d521d93e9..c8d985ba008d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/multipath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/multipath.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static void multipath_end_request(struct bio *bio)
rdev_dec_pending(rdev, conf->mddev);
}
-static void multipath_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio * bio)
+static bool multipath_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio * bio)
{
struct mpconf *conf = mddev->private;
struct multipath_bh * mp_bh;
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static void multipath_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio * bio)
if (unlikely(bio->bi_opf & REQ_PREFLUSH)) {
md_flush_request(mddev, bio);
- return;
+ return true;
}
mp_bh = mempool_alloc(conf->pool, GFP_NOIO);
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static void multipath_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio * bio)
if (mp_bh->path < 0) {
bio_io_error(bio);
mempool_free(mp_bh, conf->pool);
- return;
+ return true;
}
multipath = conf->multipaths + mp_bh->path;
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static void multipath_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio * bio)
mddev_check_writesame(mddev, &mp_bh->bio);
mddev_check_write_zeroes(mddev, &mp_bh->bio);
generic_make_request(&mp_bh->bio);
- return;
+ return true;
}
static void multipath_status(struct seq_file *seq, struct mddev *mddev)