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| author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> | 2017-08-08 16:56:36 +1000 |
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| committer | Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> | 2017-08-08 07:42:36 -0700 |
| commit | 81fe48e9aa00bdd509bd3c37a76d1132da6b9f09 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e8748e00c47df70818f7b4aa8d994f6e1cc4b4c /drivers/md/md.c | |
| parent | 33182d15c6bf182f7ae32a66ea4a547d979cd6d7 (diff) | |
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md: fix test in md_write_start()
md_write_start() needs to clear the in_sync flag is it is set, or if
there might be a race with set_in_sync() such that the later will
set it very soon. In the later case it is sufficient to take the
spinlock to synchronize with set_in_sync(), and then set the flag
if needed.
The current test is incorrect.
It should be:
if "flag is set" or "race is possible"
"flag is set" is trivially "mddev->in_sync".
"race is possible" should be tested by "mddev->sync_checkers".
If sync_checkers is 0, then there can be no race. set_in_sync() will
wait in percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_sync() for an RCU grace period,
and as md_write_start() holds the rcu_read_lock(), set_in_sync() will
be sure ot see the update to writes_pending.
If sync_checkers is > 0, there could be race. If md_write_start()
happened entirely between
if (!mddev->in_sync &&
percpu_ref_is_zero(&mddev->writes_pending)) {
and
mddev->in_sync = 1;
in set_in_sync(), then it would not see that is_sync had been set,
and set_in_sync() would not see that writes_pending had been
incremented.
This bug means that in_sync is sometimes not set when it should be.
Consequently there is a small chance that the array will be marked as
"clean" when in fact it is inconsistent.
Fixes: 4ad23a976413 ("MD: use per-cpu counter for writes_pending")
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.12+)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/md.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/md.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index d84aceede1cb..e4ba95f6cd59 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -7996,7 +7996,7 @@ bool md_write_start(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bi) if (mddev->safemode == 1) mddev->safemode = 0; /* sync_checkers is always 0 when writes_pending is in per-cpu mode */ - if (mddev->in_sync || !mddev->sync_checkers) { + if (mddev->in_sync || mddev->sync_checkers) { spin_lock(&mddev->lock); if (mddev->in_sync) { mddev->in_sync = 0; |