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Commit b1b02fe9 authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown
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md/raid5: fix another livelock caused by non-aligned writes.

If a non-page-aligned write is destined for a device which
is missing/faulty, we can deadlock.

As the target device is missing, a read-modify-write cycle
is not possible.
As the write is not for a full-page, a recontruct-write cycle
is not possible.

This should be handled by logic in fetch_block() which notices
there is a non-R5_OVERWRITE write to a missing device, and so
loads all blocks.

However since commit 67f45548, that code requires
STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE before it will active, and those circumstances
never set STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE.

So: in handle_stripe_dirtying, if neither rmw or rcw was possible,
set STRIPE_DELAYED, which will cause STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE be set
after a suitable delay.

Fixes: 67f45548


Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.16+)
Reported-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
parent 59343cd7
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