Re: [PATCH] md: Partially revert 2f6db2a7, which broke raid5

From: Richard W.M. Jones
Date: Wed May 29 2013 - 08:44:57 EST



On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:51:45AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Sorry for the delay - been vacationing. Reproduced the original bug,
> here's a patch that fixes it:
>
>
> commit 402f5db3708b2062795a384a3d8397cf702e27bc
> Author: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun May 19 10:27:07 2013 -0700
>
> raid5: Initialize bi_vcnt
>
> The patch that converted raid5 to use bio_reset() forgot to initialize
> bi_vcnt.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> index 9359828..753f318 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> @@ -664,6 +664,7 @@ static void ops_run_io(struct stripe_head *sh, struct stripe_head_state *s)
> if (test_bit(R5_ReadNoMerge, &sh->dev[i].flags))
> bi->bi_rw |= REQ_FLUSH;
>
> + bi->bi_vcnt = 1;
> bi->bi_io_vec[0].bv_len = STRIPE_SIZE;
> bi->bi_io_vec[0].bv_offset = 0;
> bi->bi_size = STRIPE_SIZE;
> @@ -701,6 +702,7 @@ static void ops_run_io(struct stripe_head *sh, struct stripe_head_state *s)
> else
> rbi->bi_sector = (sh->sector
> + rrdev->data_offset);
> + rbi->bi_vcnt = 1;
> rbi->bi_io_vec[0].bv_len = STRIPE_SIZE;
> rbi->bi_io_vec[0].bv_offset = 0;
> rbi->bi_size = STRIPE_SIZE;

Ditto to the previous follow up. We've been tracking this
bug for nearly a month:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962079

Please include this (or the other) patch to fix it.

Rich.

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