[ 45/99] md: Remove recent change which allows devices to skip recovery.

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Aug 02 2013 - 06:48:14 EST


3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

commit 5024c298311f3b97c85cb034f9edaa333fdb9338 upstream.

commit 7ceb17e87bde79d285a8b988cfed9eaeebe60b86
md: Allow devices to be re-added to a read-only array.

allowed a bit more than just that. It also allows devices to be added
to a read-write array and to end up skipping recovery.

This patch removes the offending piece of code pending a rewrite for a
subsequent release.

More specifically:
If the array has a bitmap, then the device will still need a bitmap
based resync ('saved_raid_disk' is set under different conditions
is a bitmap is present).
If the array doesn't have a bitmap, then this is correct as long as
nothing has been written to the array since the metadata was checked
by ->validate_super. However there is no locking to ensure that there
was no write.

Bug was introduced in 3.10 and causes data corruption so
patch is suitable for 3.10-stable.

Reported-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/md/md.c | 14 --------------
1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -7697,20 +7697,6 @@ static int remove_and_add_spares(struct
continue;

rdev->recovery_offset = 0;
- if (rdev->saved_raid_disk >= 0 && mddev->in_sync) {
- spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
- if (mddev->in_sync)
- /* OK, this device, which is in_sync,
- * will definitely be noticed before
- * the next write, so recovery isn't
- * needed.
- */
- rdev->recovery_offset = mddev->recovery_cp;
- spin_unlock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
- }
- if (mddev->ro && rdev->recovery_offset != MaxSector)
- /* not safe to add this disk now */
- continue;
if (mddev->pers->
hot_add_disk(mddev, rdev) == 0) {
if (sysfs_link_rdev(mddev, rdev))


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