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  1. Jun 22, 2009
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      dm: avoid unsupported spanning of md stripe boundaries · 8cbeb67a
      Mikulas Patocka authored 
      A bio that has two or more vector entries, size less than or equal to
page size, that crosses a stripe boundary of an underlying md device is
accepted by device mapper (it conforms to all its limits) but not by the
underlying device.

The fix is: If device mapper selects the one-page maximum request size,
it also needs to set its own q->merge_bvec_fn to reject any bios with
multiple vector entries that span more pages.

The problem was discovered in the following scenario:
  * MD - RAID-0
  * LV on the top of it (raid1, snapshot or striped with chunk
size/stripe larger than RAID-0 stripe)
  * one of the logical volumes is exported to xen domU
  * inside xen domU it is partitioned, the key point is that the partition
must be unaligned on page boundary (fdisk normally aligns the partition to
63 sectors which will trigger it)
  * install the system on the partitioned disk in domU
This causes I/O failures in dom0.
Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223947



Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      8cbeb67a
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      dm mpath: flush keventd queue in destructor · 53b351f9
      Mikulas Patocka authored 
      
The commit fe9cf30e moves dm table event
submission from kmultipath queue to kernel kevent queue to avoid a
deadlock.

There is a possibility of race condition because kevent queue is not flushed
in the multipath destructor. The scenario is:
- some event happens and is queued to keventd
- keventd thread is delayed due to scheuling latency or some other work
- multipath device is destroyed
- keventd now attempts to process work_struct that is residing in already
  released memory.

The patch flushes the keventd queue in multipath constructor.
I've already fixed similar bug in dm-raid1.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
      53b351f9
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      dm raid1: keep retrying alloc if mempool_alloc failed · a72986c5
      Mikulas Patocka authored 
      
If the code can't handle allocation failures, use __GFP_NOFAIL so that
in case of memory pressure the allocator will retry indefinitely and
won't return NULL which would cause a crash in the function.

This is still not a correct fix, it may cause a classic deadlock when
memory manager waits for I/O being done and I/O waits for some free memory.
I/O code shouldn't allocate any memory. But in this case it probably
doesn't matter much in practice, people usually do not swap on RAID.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      a72986c5
    • Chandra Seetharaman's avatar
      dm mpath: call activate fn for each path in pg_init · e54f77dd
      Chandra Seetharaman authored 
      
Fixed a problem affecting reinstatement of passive paths.

Before we moved the hardware handler from dm to SCSI, it performed a pg_init
for a path group and didn't maintain any state about each path in hardware
handler code.

But in SCSI dh, such state is now maintained, as we want to fail I/O early on a
path if it is not the active path.

All the hardware handlers have a state now and set to active or some form of
inactive.  They have prep_fn() which uses this state to fail the I/O without
it ever being sent to the device.

So in effect when dm-multipath calls scsi_dh_activate(), activate is
sent to only one path and the "state" of that path is changed appropriately
to "active" while other paths in the same path group are never changed
as they never got an "activate".

In order make sure all the paths in a path group gets their state set
properly when a pg_init happens, we need to call scsi_dh_activate() on
all paths in a path group.

Doing this at the hardware handler layer is not a good option as we
want the multipath layer to define the relationship between path and path
groups and not the hardware handler.

Attached patch sends an "activate" on each path in a path group when a
path group is switched. It also sends an activate when a path is reinstated.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      e54f77dd
    • Hannes Reinecke's avatar
      dm mpath: change attached scsi_dh · a0cf7ea9
      Hannes Reinecke authored 
      
When specifying a different hardware handler via multipath
features we should be able to override the built-in defaults.

The problem here is the hardware table from scsi_dh is compiled
in and cannot be changed from userland. The multipath.conf OTOH
is purely user-defined and, what's more, the user might have a valid
reason for modifying it.
(EG EMC Clariion can well be run in PNR mode even though ALUA is
active, or the user might want to try ALUA on any as-of-yet unknown
devices)

So _not_ allowing multipath to override the device handler setting
will just add to the confusion and makes error tracking even more
difficult.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      a0cf7ea9
    • Milan Broz's avatar
      dm: sysfs skip output when device is being destroyed · 4d89b7b4
      Milan Broz authored 
      
Do not process sysfs attributes when device is being destroyed.

Otherwise code can cause
  BUG_ON(test_bit(DMF_FREEING, &md->flags));
in dm_put() call.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarMilan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      4d89b7b4
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      dm mpath: validate hw_handler argument count · e094f4f1
      Mikulas Patocka authored 
      
Fix arg count parsing error in hw handlers.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      e094f4f1
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      dm mpath: validate table argument count · 0e0497c0
      Mikulas Patocka authored 
      
The parser reads the argument count as a number but doesn't check that
sufficient arguments are supplied. This command triggers the bug:

dmsetup create mpath --table "0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/mapper/cr0`
    multipath 0 0 2 1 round-robin 1000 0 1 1 /dev/mapper/cr0
    round-robin 0 1 1 /dev/mapper/cr1 1000"
kernel BUG at drivers/md/dm-mpath.c:530!

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      0e0497c0
  3. Jun 21, 2009
  5. Jun 20, 2009