md/raid5: Fix livelock when array is both resyncing and degraded.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:35:14 +0000 (11:35 +1100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 6 Mar 2015 22:40:53 +0000 (14:40 -0800)
commit58f0e96a4358f164f3857ee0d609d1b75a3ccf7d
tree679880e49f68a2a838c314459a7f8bdaa3a4d7d8
parentcb96928e7520aa9c68074afd7229a2020005d132
md/raid5: Fix livelock when array is both resyncing and degraded.

commit 26ac107378c4742978216be1005b7291b799c7b2 upstream.

Commit a7854487cd7128a30a7f4f5259de9f67d5efb95f:
  md: When RAID5 is dirty, force reconstruct-write instead of read-modify-write.

Causes an RCW cycle to be forced even when the array is degraded.
A degraded array cannot support RCW as that requires reading all data
blocks, and one may be missing.

Forcing an RCW when it is not possible causes a live-lock and the code
spins, repeatedly deciding to do something that cannot succeed.

So change the condition to only force RCW on non-degraded arrays.

Reported-by: Manibalan P <pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in>
Bisected-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fixes: a7854487cd7128a30a7f4f5259de9f67d5efb95f
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/raid5.c