Re: [PATCH] block: fix RO partition with RW disk

[Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>]

Anybody could help review this bug?

thanks,

Junxiao.

On 8/5/19 1:01 PM, Junxiao Bi wrote:
> When md raid1 was used with imsm metadata, during the boot stage,
> the raid device will first be set to readonly, then mdmon will set
> it read-write later. When there were some partitions in this device,
> the following race would make some partition left ro and fail to mount.
>
> CPU 1:                                                 CPU 2:
> add_partition()                                        set_disk_ro() //set disk RW
>   //disk was RO, so partition set to RO
>   p->policy = get_disk_ro(disk);
>                                                          if (disk->part0.policy != flag) {
>                                                              set_disk_ro_uevent(disk, flag);
>                                                              // disk set to RW
>                                                              disk->part0.policy = flag;
>                                                          }
>                                                          // set all exit partition to RW
>                                                          while ((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter)))
>                                                              part->policy = flag;
>   // this part was not yet added, so it was still RO
>   rcu_assign_pointer(ptbl->part[partno], p);
>
> Move RO status setting of partitions after they were added into partition
> table and introduce a mutex to sync RO status between disk and partitions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
> ---
>   block/genhd.c             | 3 +++
>   block/partition-generic.c | 5 ++++-
>   include/linux/genhd.h     | 1 +
>   3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
> index 54f1f0d381f4..f3cce1d354cf 100644
> --- a/block/genhd.c
> +++ b/block/genhd.c
> @@ -1479,6 +1479,7 @@ struct gendisk *__alloc_disk_node(int minors, int node_id)
>   		}
>   		ptbl = rcu_dereference_protected(disk->part_tbl, 1);
>   		rcu_assign_pointer(ptbl->part[0], &disk->part0);
> +		mutex_init(&disk->part_lock);
>   
>   		/*
>   		 * set_capacity() and get_capacity() currently don't use
> @@ -1570,6 +1571,7 @@ void set_disk_ro(struct gendisk *disk, int flag)
>   	struct disk_part_iter piter;
>   	struct hd_struct *part;
>   
> +	mutex_lock(&disk->part_lock);
>   	if (disk->part0.policy != flag) {
>   		set_disk_ro_uevent(disk, flag);
>   		disk->part0.policy = flag;
> @@ -1579,6 +1581,7 @@ void set_disk_ro(struct gendisk *disk, int flag)
>   	while ((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter)))
>   		part->policy = flag;
>   	disk_part_iter_exit(&piter);
> +	mutex_unlock(&disk->part_lock);
>   }
>   
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_disk_ro);
> diff --git a/block/partition-generic.c b/block/partition-generic.c
> index aee643ce13d1..63cb6fb996ff 100644
> --- a/block/partition-generic.c
> +++ b/block/partition-generic.c
> @@ -345,7 +345,6 @@ struct hd_struct *add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno,
>   		queue_limit_discard_alignment(&disk->queue->limits, start);
>   	p->nr_sects = len;
>   	p->partno = partno;
> -	p->policy = get_disk_ro(disk);
>   
>   	if (info) {
>   		struct partition_meta_info *pinfo = alloc_part_info(disk);
> @@ -401,6 +400,10 @@ struct hd_struct *add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno,
>   	/* everything is up and running, commence */
>   	rcu_assign_pointer(ptbl->part[partno], p);
>   
> +	mutex_lock(&disk->part_lock);
> +	p->policy = get_disk_ro(disk);
> +	mutex_unlock(&disk->part_lock);
> +
>   	/* suppress uevent if the disk suppresses it */
>   	if (!dev_get_uevent_suppress(ddev))
>   		kobject_uevent(&pdev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
> diff --git a/include/linux/genhd.h b/include/linux/genhd.h
> index 8b5330dd5ac0..df6ddca8a92c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/genhd.h
> +++ b/include/linux/genhd.h
> @@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ struct gendisk {
>   	 */
>   	struct disk_part_tbl __rcu *part_tbl;
>   	struct hd_struct part0;
> +	struct mutex part_lock;
>   
>   	const struct block_device_operations *fops;
>   	struct request_queue *queue;