If a bitmap recovery is interrupted and later restarted, then
sectors below the recovery offset, written between interruption
and resumption, will not be copied. This results in corruption.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777511
for a script that can be used to repro this.
Seems like ignoring the recovery_offset if a bitmap exists is
the way to go.
Signed-off-by: Nate Dailey <redacted>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
@@ -7738,16 +7738,18 @@ void md_do_sync(struct md_thread *thread)else{/* recovery follows the physical size of devices */max_sectors=mddev->dev_sectors;-j=MaxSector;-rcu_read_lock();-rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev,mddev)-if(rdev->raid_disk>=0&&-!test_bit(Faulty,&rdev->flags)&&-!test_bit(In_sync,&rdev->flags)&&-rdev->recovery_offset<j)-j=rdev->recovery_offset;-rcu_read_unlock();-+/* we don't use the offset if there's a bitmap */+if(!mddev->bitmap){+j=MaxSector;+rcu_read_lock();+rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev,mddev)+if(rdev->raid_disk>=0&&+!test_bit(Faulty,&rdev->flags)&&+!test_bit(In_sync,&rdev->flags)&&+rdev->recovery_offset<j)+j=rdev->recovery_offset;+rcu_read_unlock();+}/* If there is a bitmap, we need to make sure all*writesthatstartedbeforeweaddedaspare*completebeforewestartdoingarecovery.
From: Joe Lawrence <hidden> Date: 2015-07-29 20:46:21
On 07/28/2015 03:28 PM, Nate Dailey wrote:
quoted hunk
If a bitmap recovery is interrupted and later restarted, then
sectors below the recovery offset, written between interruption
and resumption, will not be copied. This results in corruption.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777511
for a script that can be used to repro this.
Seems like ignoring the recovery_offset if a bitmap exists is
the way to go.
Signed-off-by: Nate Dailey <redacted>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
@@ -7738,16 +7738,18 @@ void md_do_sync(struct md_thread *thread)else{/* recovery follows the physical size of devices */max_sectors=mddev->dev_sectors;-j=MaxSector;-rcu_read_lock();-rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev,mddev)-if(rdev->raid_disk>=0&&-!test_bit(Faulty,&rdev->flags)&&-!test_bit(In_sync,&rdev->flags)&&-rdev->recovery_offset<j)-j=rdev->recovery_offset;-rcu_read_unlock();-+/* we don't use the offset if there's a bitmap */+if(!mddev->bitmap){+j=MaxSector;+rcu_read_lock();+rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev,mddev)+if(rdev->raid_disk>=0&&+!test_bit(Faulty,&rdev->flags)&&+!test_bit(In_sync,&rdev->flags)&&+rdev->recovery_offset<j)+j=rdev->recovery_offset;+rcu_read_unlock();+}/* If there is a bitmap, we need to make sure all*writesthatstartedbeforeweaddedaspare*completebeforewestartdoingarecovery.
I hate to nag... but looking for feedback on this change, which addresses what
seems to me to be a serious bug.
Thanks,
Nate
On 07/29/2015 04:46 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote:
On 07/28/2015 03:28 PM, Nate Dailey wrote:
quoted
If a bitmap recovery is interrupted and later restarted, then
sectors below the recovery offset, written between interruption
and resumption, will not be copied. This results in corruption.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777511
for a script that can be used to repro this.
Seems like ignoring the recovery_offset if a bitmap exists is
the way to go.
Signed-off-by: Nate Dailey <redacted>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
@@ -7738,16 +7738,18 @@ void md_do_sync(struct md_thread *thread)else{/* recovery follows the physical size of devices */max_sectors=mddev->dev_sectors;-j=MaxSector;-rcu_read_lock();-rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev,mddev)-if(rdev->raid_disk>=0&&-!test_bit(Faulty,&rdev->flags)&&-!test_bit(In_sync,&rdev->flags)&&-rdev->recovery_offset<j)-j=rdev->recovery_offset;-rcu_read_unlock();-+/* we don't use the offset if there's a bitmap */+if(!mddev->bitmap){+j=MaxSector;+rcu_read_lock();+rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev,mddev)+if(rdev->raid_disk>=0&&+!test_bit(Faulty,&rdev->flags)&&+!test_bit(In_sync,&rdev->flags)&&+rdev->recovery_offset<j)+j=rdev->recovery_offset;+rcu_read_unlock();+}/* If there is a bitmap, we need to make sure all*writesthatstartedbeforeweaddedaspare*completebeforewestartdoingarecovery.
[+cc Ben & Cyril from the Debian bug report]
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From: Neil Brown <hidden> Date: 2015-10-30 02:51:02
On Sat, Aug 15 2015, Nate Dailey wrote:
I hate to nag... but looking for feedback on this change, which addresses what
seems to me to be a serious bug.
Being a nag is good. I don't have the earlier emails in my inbox - I
wonder what happened to them.... and for some reason this one was marked
"read".
But it arrived about when I converted over to notmuch and just before I
went on 3 weeks leave...
Anyway, Jes just poked me so I'm looking now.
Thanks,
Nate
On 07/29/2015 04:46 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote:
quoted
On 07/28/2015 03:28 PM, Nate Dailey wrote:
quoted
If a bitmap recovery is interrupted and later restarted, then
sectors below the recovery offset, written between interruption
and resumption, will not be copied. This results in corruption.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777511
for a script that can be used to repro this.
Seems like ignoring the recovery_offset if a bitmap exists is
the way to go.
This doesn't feel like the right solution.
Why does the presence of a bitmap affect the validity of
->recovery_offset.
Surely recovery_offset should always be reliable and we should always
use it. Maybe it isn't being updated correctly in some situation when a
bitmap is present.
Does it ever make sense to honour the recovery-offset when a device is
re-added?
I don't think it does....
Oh. Look what I found.
commit 7eb418851f3278de67126ea0c427641ab4792c57
Author: NeilBrown [off-list ref]
Date: Tue Jan 14 15:55:14 2014 +1100
md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array.
...
- rdev->recovery_offset = 0;
+ if (rdev->saved_raid_disk < 0)
+ rdev->recovery_offset = 0;
we used to clear recovery_offset for a re-add, but we don't any more.
I guess this patch introduced the bug.
I cannot find anything in my mail logs to suggest why I wrote that
patch.
Right now I cannot think of any real justification for that patch.
Could someone please test to see if reverting that patch fixes the
problem?
sorry for the delay in getting to this.
Thanks.
NeilBrown
@@ -7738,16 +7738,18 @@ void md_do_sync(struct md_thread *thread)else{/* recovery follows the physical size of devices */max_sectors=mddev->dev_sectors;-j=MaxSector;-rcu_read_lock();-rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev,mddev)-if(rdev->raid_disk>=0&&-!test_bit(Faulty,&rdev->flags)&&-!test_bit(In_sync,&rdev->flags)&&-rdev->recovery_offset<j)-j=rdev->recovery_offset;-rcu_read_unlock();-+/* we don't use the offset if there's a bitmap */+if(!mddev->bitmap){+j=MaxSector;+rcu_read_lock();+rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev,mddev)+if(rdev->raid_disk>=0&&+!test_bit(Faulty,&rdev->flags)&&+!test_bit(In_sync,&rdev->flags)&&+rdev->recovery_offset<j)+j=rdev->recovery_offset;+rcu_read_unlock();+}/* If there is a bitmap, we need to make sure all*writesthatstartedbeforeweaddedaspare*completebeforewestartdoingarecovery.
[+cc Ben & Cyril from the Debian bug report]
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I first tested 4.3-rc6 that I already had laying around, and verified that the
bug still happens.
Then I reverted 7eb418851f3278de67126ea0c427641ab4792c57, rebuilt & installed,
and tested again. Reverting this patch did indeed fix the bug.
Thank you!
Nate
On 10/29/2015 10:51 PM, Neil Brown wrote:
On Sat, Aug 15 2015, Nate Dailey wrote:
quoted
I hate to nag... but looking for feedback on this change, which addresses what
seems to me to be a serious bug.
Being a nag is good. I don't have the earlier emails in my inbox - I
wonder what happened to them.... and for some reason this one was marked
"read".
But it arrived about when I converted over to notmuch and just before I
went on 3 weeks leave...
Anyway, Jes just poked me so I'm looking now.
quoted
Thanks,
Nate
On 07/29/2015 04:46 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote:
quoted
On 07/28/2015 03:28 PM, Nate Dailey wrote:
quoted
If a bitmap recovery is interrupted and later restarted, then
sectors below the recovery offset, written between interruption
and resumption, will not be copied. This results in corruption.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777511
for a script that can be used to repro this.
Seems like ignoring the recovery_offset if a bitmap exists is
the way to go.
This doesn't feel like the right solution.
Why does the presence of a bitmap affect the validity of
->recovery_offset.
Surely recovery_offset should always be reliable and we should always
use it. Maybe it isn't being updated correctly in some situation when a
bitmap is present.
Does it ever make sense to honour the recovery-offset when a device is
re-added?
I don't think it does....
Oh. Look what I found.
commit 7eb418851f3278de67126ea0c427641ab4792c57
Author: NeilBrown [off-list ref]
Date: Tue Jan 14 15:55:14 2014 +1100
md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array.
...
- rdev->recovery_offset = 0;
+ if (rdev->saved_raid_disk < 0)
+ rdev->recovery_offset = 0;
we used to clear recovery_offset for a re-add, but we don't any more.
I guess this patch introduced the bug.
I cannot find anything in my mail logs to suggest why I wrote that
patch.
Right now I cannot think of any real justification for that patch.
Could someone please test to see if reverting that patch fixes the
problem?
sorry for the delay in getting to this.
Thanks.
NeilBrown
@@ -7738,16 +7738,18 @@ void md_do_sync(struct md_thread *thread)else{/* recovery follows the physical size of devices */max_sectors=mddev->dev_sectors;-j=MaxSector;-rcu_read_lock();-rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev,mddev)-if(rdev->raid_disk>=0&&-!test_bit(Faulty,&rdev->flags)&&-!test_bit(In_sync,&rdev->flags)&&-rdev->recovery_offset<j)-j=rdev->recovery_offset;-rcu_read_unlock();-+/* we don't use the offset if there's a bitmap */+if(!mddev->bitmap){+j=MaxSector;+rcu_read_lock();+rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev,mddev)+if(rdev->raid_disk>=0&&+!test_bit(Faulty,&rdev->flags)&&+!test_bit(In_sync,&rdev->flags)&&+rdev->recovery_offset<j)+j=rdev->recovery_offset;+rcu_read_unlock();+}/* If there is a bitmap, we need to make sure all*writesthatstartedbeforeweaddedaspare*completebeforewestartdoingarecovery.
[+cc Ben & Cyril from the Debian bug report]
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From: Neil Brown <hidden> Date: 2015-10-31 00:26:36
On Sat, Oct 31 2015, Nate Dailey wrote:
I first tested 4.3-rc6 that I already had laying around, and verified that the
bug still happens.
Then I reverted 7eb418851f3278de67126ea0c427641ab4792c57, rebuilt & installed,
and tested again. Reverting this patch did indeed fix the bug.
Thank you!
Nate
Thanks a lot for testing.
The following with go to Linus soon, hopefully in time for 4.3-final.
It should then be picked up by stable.
If anyone wants to try their hand at the "future patch" I mentioned, I
wouldn't object. MD_FEATURE_RECOVERY_BITMAP is an important part of the
picture. I won't have an opportunity to work on it until December.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
commit d01552a76d71f9879af448e9142389ee9be6e95b
Author: NeilBrown [off-list ref]
Date: Sat Oct 31 11:00:56 2015 +1100
Revert "md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array."
This reverts commit 7eb418851f3278de67126ea0c427641ab4792c57.
This commit is poorly justified, I can find not discusison in email,
and it clearly causes a problem.
If a device which is being recovered fails and is subsequently
re-added to an array, there could easily have been changes to the
array *before* the point where the recovery was up to. So the
recovery must start again from the beginning.
If a spare is being recovered and fails, then when it is re-added we
really should do a bitmap-based recovery up to the recovery-offset,
and then a full recovery from there. Before this reversion, we only
did the "full recovery from there" which is not corect. After this
reversion with will do a full recovery from the start, which is safer
but not ideal.
It will be left to a future patch to arrange the two different styles
of recovery.
Reported-and-tested-by: Nate Dailey [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown [off-list ref]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.14+)
Fixes: 7eb418851f32 ("md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array.")