This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    md/raid1: make sure resync waits for conflicting writes to complete.

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     md-raid1-make-sure-resync-waits-for-conflicting-writes-to-complete.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 2f73d3c55d09ce60647b96ad2a9b539c95a530ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:01:49 +1000
Subject: md/raid1: make sure resync waits for conflicting writes to complete.

From: NeilBrown <[email protected]>

commit 2f73d3c55d09ce60647b96ad2a9b539c95a530ee upstream.

The resync/recovery process for raid1 was recently changed
so that writes could happen in parallel with resync providing
they were in different regions of the device.

There is a problem though:  While a write request will always
wait for conflicting resync to complete, a resync request
will *not* always wait for conflicting writes to complete.

Two changes are needed to fix this:

1/ raise_barrier (which waits until it is safe to do resync)
   must wait until current_window_requests is zero
2/ wait_battier (which waits at the start of a new write request)
   must update current_window_requests if the request could
   possible conflict with a concurrent resync.

As concurrent writes and resync can lead to data loss,
this patch is suitable for -stable.

Fixes: 79ef3a8aa1cb1523cc231c9a90a278333c21f761
Cc: majianpeng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/md/raid1.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -845,10 +845,12 @@ static void raise_barrier(struct r1conf
         * C: next_resync + RESYNC_SECTORS > start_next_window, meaning
         *    next resync will reach to the window which normal bios are
         *    handling.
+        * D: while there are any active requests in the current window.
         */
        wait_event_lock_irq(conf->wait_barrier,
                            !conf->array_frozen &&
                            conf->barrier < RESYNC_DEPTH &&
+                           conf->current_window_requests == 0 &&
                            (conf->start_next_window >=
                             conf->next_resync + RESYNC_SECTORS),
                            conf->resync_lock);
@@ -915,8 +917,8 @@ static sector_t wait_barrier(struct r1co
        }
 
        if (bio && bio_data_dir(bio) == WRITE) {
-               if (conf->next_resync + NEXT_NORMALIO_DISTANCE
-                   <= bio->bi_iter.bi_sector) {
+               if (bio->bi_iter.bi_sector >=
+                   conf->next_resync) {
                        if (conf->start_next_window == MaxSector)
                                conf->start_next_window =
                                        conf->next_resync +


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/md-raid1-fix_read_error-should-act-on-all-non-faulty-devices.patch
queue-3.14/md-raid1-count-resync-requests-in-nr_pending.patch
queue-3.14/md-raid1-update-next_resync-under-resync_lock.patch
queue-3.14/md-raid1-intialise-start_next_window-for-read-case-to-avoid-hang.patch
queue-3.14/md-raid1-don-t-use-next_resync-to-determine-how-far-resync-has-progressed.patch
queue-3.14/md-raid1-be-more-cautious-where-we-read-balance-during-resync.patch
queue-3.14/md-raid1-make-sure-resync-waits-for-conflicting-writes-to-complete.patch
queue-3.14/md-raid1-clean-up-request-counts-properly-in-close_sync.patch
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