[ 042/100] md/raid1,raid10: fix deadlock with freeze_array()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 12 2013 - 19:08:42 EST


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

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From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

commit ee0b0244030434cdda26777bfb98962447e080cd upstream.

When raid1/raid10 needs to fix a read error, it first drains
all pending requests by calling freeze_array().
This calls flush_pending_writes() if it needs to sleep,
but some writes may be pending in a per-process plug rather
than in the per-array request queue.

When raid1{,0}_unplug() moves the request from the per-process
plug to the per-array request queue (from which
flush_pending_writes() can flush them), it needs to wake up
freeze_array(), or freeze_array() will never flush them and so
it will block forever.

So add the requires wake_up() calls.

This bug was introduced by commit
f54a9d0e59c4bea3db733921ca9147612a6f292c
for raid1 and a similar commit for RAID10, and so has been present
since linux-3.6. As the bug causes a deadlock I believe this fix is
suitable for -stable.

Reported-by: Tregaron Bayly <tbayly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Tregaron Bayly <tbayly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/md/raid1.c | 1 +
drivers/md/raid10.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -967,6 +967,7 @@ static void raid1_unplug(struct blk_plug
bio_list_merge(&conf->pending_bio_list, &plug->pending);
conf->pending_count += plug->pending_cnt;
spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
+ wake_up(&conf->wait_barrier);
md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
kfree(plug);
return;
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -1073,6 +1073,7 @@ static void raid10_unplug(struct blk_plu
bio_list_merge(&conf->pending_bio_list, &plug->pending);
conf->pending_count += plug->pending_cnt;
spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
+ wake_up(&conf->wait_barrier);
md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
kfree(plug);
return;


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