linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.11 61/93] md: always set MD_RECOVERY_INTR when interrupting a reshape thread.

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:02:40 +0100
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.11 61/93] md: always set MD_RECOVERY_INTR when interrupting a reshape thread.

3.11.10.12 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>

commit 2ac295a544dcae9299cba13ce250419117ae7fd1 upstream.

Commit 8313b8e57f55b15e5b7f7fc5d1630bbf686a9a97
   md: fix problem when adding device to read-only array with bitmap.

added a called to md_reap_sync_thread() which cause a reshape thread
to be interrupted (in particular, it could cause md_thread() to never even
call md_do_sync()).
However it didn't set MD_RECOVERY_INTR so ->finish_reshape() would not
know that the reshape didn't complete.

This only happens when mddev->ro is set and normally reshape threads
don't run in that situation.  But raid5 and raid10 can start a reshape
thread during "run" is the array is in the middle of a reshape.
They do this even if ->ro is set.

So it is best to set MD_RECOVERY_INTR before abortingg the
sync thread, just in case.

Though it rare for this to trigger a problem it can cause data corruption
because the reshape isn't finished properly.
So it is suitable for any stable which the offending commit was applied to.
(3.2 or later)

Fixes: 8313b8e57f55b15e5b7f7fc5d1630bbf686a9a97
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/md/md.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index c95b77132872..2d3111ba445c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -7809,6 +7809,7 @@ void md_check_recovery(struct mddev *mddev)
 			/* There is no thread, but we need to call
 			 * ->spare_active and clear saved_raid_disk
 			 */
+			set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
 			md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
 			clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery);
 			goto unlock;
-- 
1.9.1

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