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Nikos Tsironis 7b518508c6 dm era: Update in-core bitset after committing the metadata 
commit 2099b145d7 upstream.

In case of a system crash, dm-era might fail to mark blocks as written
in its metadata, although the corresponding writes to these blocks were
passed down to the origin device and completed successfully.

Consider the following sequence of events:

1. We write to a block that has not been yet written in the current era
2. era_map() checks the in-core bitmap for the current era and sees
   that the block is not marked as written.
3. The write is deferred for submission after the metadata have been
   updated and committed.
4. The worker thread processes the deferred write
   (process_deferred_bios()) and marks the block as written in the
   in-core bitmap, **before** committing the metadata.
5. The worker thread starts committing the metadata.
6. We do more writes that map to the same block as the write of step (1)
7. era_map() checks the in-core bitmap and sees that the block is marked
   as written, **although the metadata have not been committed yet**.
8. These writes are passed down to the origin device immediately and the
   device reports them as completed.
9. The system crashes, e.g., power failure, before the commit from step
   (5) finishes.

When the system recovers and we query the dm-era target for the list of
written blocks it doesn't report the aforementioned block as written,
although the writes of step (6) completed successfully.

The issue is that era_map() decides whether to defer or not a write
based on non committed information. The root cause of the bug is that we
update the in-core bitmap, **before** committing the metadata.

Fix this by updating the in-core bitmap **after** successfully
committing the metadata.

Fixes: eec40579d8 ("dm: add era target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-04 10:26:53 +01:00
arch sparc32: fix a user-triggerable oops in clear_user() 2021-03-04 10:26:50 +01:00
block blk-settings: align max_sectors on "logical_block_size" boundary 2021-03-04 10:26:40 +01:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 10:26:29 +01:00
crypto crypto: ecdh_helper - Ensure 'len >= secret.len' in decode_key() 2021-03-04 10:26:25 +01:00
Documentation seq_file: document how per-entry resources are managed. 2021-03-04 10:26:48 +01:00
drivers dm era: Update in-core bitset after committing the metadata 2021-03-04 10:26:53 +01:00
fs gfs2: Recursive gfs2_quota_hold in gfs2_iomap_end 2021-03-04 10:26:51 +01:00
include net: sched: fix police ext initialization 2021-03-04 10:26:53 +01:00
init fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation 2021-02-10 09:25:29 +01:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel printk: fix deadlock when kernel panic 2021-03-04 10:26:50 +01:00
lib udp: fix skb_copy_and_csum_datagram with odd segment sizes 2021-02-17 10:35:19 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm hugetlb: fix copy_huge_page_from_user contig page struct assumption 2021-03-04 10:26:49 +01:00
net net: sched: fix police ext initialization 2021-03-04 10:26:53 +01:00
samples samples: bpf: Fix lwt_len_hist reusing previous BPF map 2020-12-30 11:51:12 +01:00
scripts scripts/recordmcount.pl: support big endian for ARCH sh 2021-02-26 10:10:28 +01:00
security KEYS: trusted: Fix migratable=1 failing 2021-03-04 10:26:44 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: modify EAPD in the ALC886 2021-03-04 10:26:42 +01:00
tools perf test: Fix unaligned access in sample parsing test 2021-03-04 10:26:35 +01:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
virt KVM: Use kvm_pfn_t for local PFN variable in hva_to_pfn_remapped() 2021-02-26 10:10:28 +01:00
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Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM 2020-08-26 10:40:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.4.101 2021-02-26 10:10:28 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.