linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 077/164] md/raid5: don't record new size if resize

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Message-ID: <lsq.1438473757.260013676@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 02 Aug 2015 01:02:37 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "NeilBrown" <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 077/164] md/raid5: don't record new size if
 resize_stripes fails.

3.2.70-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

commit 6e9eac2dcee5e19f125967dd2be3e36558c42fff upstream.

If any memory allocation in resize_stripes fails we will return
-ENOMEM, but in some cases we update conf->pool_size anyway.

This means that if we try again, the allocations will be assumed
to be larger than they are, and badness results.

So only update pool_size if there is no error.

This bug was introduced in 2.6.17 and the patch is suitable for
-stable.

Fixes: ad01c9e3752f ("[PATCH] md: Allow stripes to be expanded in preparation for expanding an array")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/md/raid5.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -1554,7 +1554,8 @@ static int resize_stripes(struct r5conf

 	conf->slab_cache = sc;
 	conf->active_name = 1-conf->active_name;
-	conf->pool_size = newsize;
+	if (!err)
+		conf->pool_size = newsize;
 	return err;
 }

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