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)
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

index 4daf5c03b33bfdc626d53e6015ccb7c565060117..1b6986ce5da9af6c4cc424c56b15c5ebe73f91ad 100644 (file)
@@ -2853,7 +2853,8 @@ static void handle_stripe_dirtying(struct r5conf *conf,
         * generate correct data from the parity.
         */
        if (conf->max_degraded == 2 ||
-           (recovery_cp < MaxSector && sh->sector >= recovery_cp)) {
+           (recovery_cp < MaxSector && sh->sector >= recovery_cp &&
+            s->failed == 0)) {
                /* Calculate the real rcw later - for now make it
                 * look like rcw is cheaper
                 */