When md raid device (e.g. raid456) is used as backing device, read-ahead
requests on a degrading and recovering md raid device might be failured
immediately by md raid code, but indeed this md raid array can still be
read or write for normal I/O requests. Therefore such failed read-ahead
request are not real hardware failure. Further more, after degrading and
recovering accomplished, read-ahead requests will be handled by md raid
array again.

For such condition, I/O failures of read-ahead requests don't indicate
real health status (because normal I/O still be served), they should not
be counted into I/O error counter dc->io_errors.

Since there is no simple way to detect whether the backing divice is a
md raid device, this patch simply ignores I/O failures for read-ahead
bios on backing device, to avoid bogus backing device failure on a
degrading md raid array.

Suggested-and-tested-by: Thorsten Knabe [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <redacted>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/md/bcache/io.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/io.c b/drivers/md/bcache/io.c
index c25097968319..4d93f07f63e5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/io.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/io.c

@@ -58,6 +58,18 @@ void bch_count_backing_io_errors(struct cached_dev *dc, struct bio *bio)
 
 	WARN_ONCE(!dc, "NULL pointer of struct cached_dev");
 
+	/*
+	 * Read-ahead requests on a degrading and recovering md raid
+	 * (e.g. raid6) device might be failured immediately by md
+	 * raid code, which is not a real hardware media failure. So
+	 * we shouldn't count failed REQ_RAHEAD bio to dc->io_errors.
+	 */
+	if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_RAHEAD) {
+		pr_warn_ratelimited("%s: Read-ahead I/O failed on backing device, ignore",
+				    dc->backing_dev_name);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	errors = atomic_add_return(1, &dc->io_errors);
 	if (errors < dc->error_limit)
 		pr_err("%s: IO error on backing device, unrecoverable",

-- 
2.16.4