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authorHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>2018-02-02 23:13:19 +0100
committerShaohua Li <sh.li@alibaba-inc.com>2018-02-18 10:11:59 -0800
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md: fix md_write_start() deadlock w/o metadata devices
If no metadata devices are configured on raid1/4/5/6/10 (e.g. via dm-raid), md_write_start() unconditionally waits for superblocks to be written thus deadlocking. Fix introduces mddev->has_superblocks bool, defines it in md_run() and checks for it in md_write_start() to conditionally avoid waiting. Once on it, check for non-existing superblocks in md_super_write(). Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198647 Fixes: cc27b0c78c796 ("md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start()") Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <sh.li@alibaba-inc.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 58cd20a5e85e..fbc925cce810 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -468,6 +468,8 @@ struct mddev {
void (*sync_super)(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev);
struct md_cluster_info *cluster_info;
unsigned int good_device_nr; /* good device num within cluster raid */
+
+ bool has_superblocks:1;
};
enum recovery_flags {