linux-toradex.git/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c, branch v3.12.20

dm mpath: fix stalls when handling invalid ioctls

2014-03-05T16:13:55+00:00

commit a1989b330093578ea5470bea0a00f940c444c466 upstream.

An invalid ioctl will never be valid, irrespective of whether multipath
has active paths or not.  So for invalid ioctls we do not have to wait
for multipath to activate any paths, but can rather return an error
code immediately.  This fix resolves numerous instances of:

 udevd[]: worker [] unexpectedly returned with status 0x0100

that have been seen during testing.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

dm mpath: fix race condition between multipath_dtr and pg_init_done

2013-12-04T19:05:27+00:00

commit 954a73d5d3073df2231820c718fdd2f18b0fe4c9 upstream.

Whenever multipath_dtr() is happening we must prevent queueing any
further path activation work.  Implement this by adding a new
'pg_init_disabled' flag to the multipath structure that denotes future
path activation work should be skipped if it is set.  By disabling
pg_init and then re-enabling in flush_multipath_work() we also avoid the
potential for pg_init to be initiated while suspending an mpath device.

Without this patch a race condition exists that may result in a kernel
panic:

1) If after pg_init_done() decrements pg_init_in_progress to 0, a call
   to wait_for_pg_init_completion() assumes there are no more pending path
   management commands.
2) If pg_init_required is set by pg_init_done(), due to retryable
   mode_select errors, then process_queued_ios() will again queue the
   path activation work.
3) If free_multipath() completes before activate_path() work is called a
   NULL pointer dereference like the following can be seen when
   accessing members of the recently destructed multipath:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000090
RIP: 0010:[]  [] activate_path+0x1b/0x30 [dm_multipath]
[] worker_thread+0x170/0x2a0
[] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40

[switch to disabling pg_init in flush_multipath_work & header edits by Mike Snitzer]
Signed-off-by: Shiva Krishna Merla 
Reviewed-by: Krishnasamy Somasundaram 
Tested-by: Speagle Andy 
Acked-by: Junichi Nomura 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm: add reserved_rq_based_ios module parameter

2013-09-23T14:42:24+00:00

Allow user to change the number of IOs that are reserved by
request-based DM's mempools by writing to this file:
/sys/module/dm_mod/parameters/reserved_rq_based_ios

The default value is RESERVED_REQUEST_BASED_IOS (256).  The maximum
allowed value is RESERVED_MAX_IOS (1024).

Export dm_get_reserved_rq_based_ios() for use by DM targets and core
code.  Switch to sizing dm-mpath's mempool using DM core's configurable
'reserved_rq_based_ios'.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar 
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka

dm mpath: disable WRITE SAME if it fails

2013-09-20T14:36:34+00:00

Workaround the SCSI layer's problematic WRITE SAME heuristics by
disabling WRITE SAME in the DM multipath device's queue_limits if an
underlying device disabled it.

The WRITE SAME heuristics, with both the original commit 5db44863b6eb
("[SCSI] sd: Implement support for WRITE SAME") and the updated commit
66c28f971 ("[SCSI] sd: Update WRITE SAME heuristics"), default to enabling
WRITE SAME(10) even without successfully determining it is supported.
After the first failed WRITE SAME the SCSI layer will disable WRITE SAME
for the device (by setting sdkp->device->no_write_same which results in
'max_write_same_sectors' in device's queue_limits to be set to 0).

When a device is stacked ontop of such a SCSI device any changes to that
SCSI device's queue_limits do not automatically propagate up the stack.
As such, a DM multipath device will not have its WRITE SAME support
disabled.  This causes the block layer to continue to issue WRITE SAME
requests to the mpath device which causes paths to fail and (if mpath IO
isn't configured to queue when no paths are available) it will result in
actual IO errors to the upper layers.

This fix doesn't help configurations that have additional devices
stacked ontop of the mpath device (e.g. LVM created linear DM devices
ontop).  A proper fix that restacks all the queue_limits from the bottom
of the device stack up will need to be explored if SCSI will continue to
use this model of optimistically allowing op codes and then disabling
them after they fail for the first time.

Before this patch:

EXT4-fs (dm-6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
device-mapper: multipath: XXX snitm debugging: got -EREMOTEIO (-121)
device-mapper: multipath: XXX snitm debugging: failing WRITE SAME IO with error=-121
end_request: critical target error, dev dm-6, sector 528
dm-6: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.
device-mapper: multipath: Failing path 8:112.
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 4616
dm-6: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 4616
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 5640
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 6664
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 7688
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 524288
Buffer I/O error on device dm-6, logical block 65536
lost page write due to I/O error on dm-6
JBD2: Error -5 detected when updating journal superblock for dm-6-8.
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 524296
Aborting journal on device dm-6-8.
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 524288
Buffer I/O error on device dm-6, logical block 65536
lost page write due to I/O error on dm-6
JBD2: Error -5 detected when updating journal superblock for dm-6-8.

# cat /sys/block/sdh/queue/write_same_max_bytes
0
# cat /sys/block/dm-6/queue/write_same_max_bytes
33553920

After this patch:

EXT4-fs (dm-6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
device-mapper: multipath: XXX snitm debugging: got -EREMOTEIO (-121)
device-mapper: multipath: XXX snitm debugging: WRITE SAME I/O failed with error=-121
end_request: critical target error, dev dm-6, sector 528
dm-6: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.

# cat /sys/block/sdh/queue/write_same_max_bytes
0
# cat /sys/block/dm-6/queue/write_same_max_bytes
0

It should be noted that WRITE SAME support wasn't enabled in DM
multipath until v3.10.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: Martin K. Petersen 
Cc: Hannes Reinecke 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+

dm mpath: do not fail path on -ENOSPC

2013-09-18T18:41:06+00:00

Since ENOSPC is a target-side error, dm-mpath should just pass the error
information to upper layer instead of retrying itself with path failover.
Otherwise it will end up failing all paths down while path checkers find
all paths ok.

ENOSPC can now be returned from SCSI device after commit a9d6ceb8
("[SCSI] return ENOSPC on thin provisioning failure").

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura 
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

[SCSI] Return ENODATA on medium error

2013-08-23T16:54:53+00:00

When a medium error is detected the SCSI stack should return
ENODATA to the upper layers.

[jejb: fix whitespace error]
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

dm mpath: fix ioctl deadlock when no paths

2013-07-10T22:41:15+00:00

When multipath needs to retry an ioctl the reference to the
current live table needs to be dropped. Otherwise a deadlock
occurs when all paths are down:
- dm_blk_ioctl takes a reference to the current table
  and spins in multipath_ioctl().
- A new table is being loaded, but upon resume the process
  hangs in dm_table_destroy() waiting for references to
  drop to zero.

With this patch the reference to the old table is dropped
prior to retry, thereby avoiding the deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm mpath: enable WRITE SAME support

2013-05-10T13:37:16+00:00

Enable WRITE SAME support in dm multipath.  As far as multipath is
concerned it is just another write request.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Tested-by: Bharata B Rao 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: rename request variables to bios

2013-03-01T22:45:47+00:00

Use 'bio' in the name of variables and functions that deal with
bios rather than 'request' to avoid confusion with the normal
block layer use of 'request'.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: fix truncated status strings

2013-03-01T22:45:44+00:00

Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting
the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the
buffer.

When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status
calls ti->type->status. If ti->type->status returns non-zero,
retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets
DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG.

However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method
on overflow. Most targets returns always zero.

If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the
table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in
retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it
goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned.

In the current code, the targets behave in the following way:
* dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the
  key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows.
* dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened.
  This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error
  code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow.
* all the other targets always return 0.

This patch changes the ti->type->status function to return void (because
most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in
retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space
completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon