From 8e0e99ba64c7ba46133a7c8a3e3f7de01f23bd93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 13:45:00 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns. It has come to my attention (thanks Martin) that 'discard_zeroes_data' is only a hint. Some devices in some cases don't do what it says on the label. The use of DISCARD in RAID5 depends on reads from discarded regions being predictably zero. If a write to a previously discarded region performs a read-modify-write cycle it assumes that the parity block was consistent with the data blocks. If all were zero, this would be the case. If some are and some aren't this would not be the case. This could lead to data corruption after a device failure when data needs to be reconstructed from the parity. As we cannot trust 'discard_zeroes_data', ignore it by default and so disallow DISCARD on all raid4/5/6 arrays. As many devices are trustworthy, and as there are benefits to using DISCARD, add a module parameter to over-ride this caution and cause DISCARD to work if discard_zeroes_data is set. If a site want to enable DISCARD on some arrays but not on others they should select DISCARD support at the filesystem level, and set the raid456 module parameter. raid456.devices_handle_discard_safely=Y As this is a data-safety issue, I believe this patch is suitable for -stable. DISCARD support for RAID456 was added in 3.7 Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: Heinz Mauelshagen Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.7+) Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Fixes: 620125f2bf8ff0c4969b79653b54d7bcc9d40637 Signed-off-by: NeilBrown --- drivers/md/raid5.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c index 183588b11fc1..9f0fbecd1eb5 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ #define cpu_to_group(cpu) cpu_to_node(cpu) #define ANY_GROUP NUMA_NO_NODE +static bool devices_handle_discard_safely = false; +module_param(devices_handle_discard_safely, bool, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(devices_handle_discard_safely, + "Set to Y if all devices in each array reliably return zeroes on reads from discarded regions"); static struct workqueue_struct *raid5_wq; /* * Stripe cache @@ -6208,7 +6212,7 @@ static int run(struct mddev *mddev) mddev->queue->limits.discard_granularity = stripe; /* * unaligned part of discard request will be ignored, so can't - * guarantee discard_zerors_data + * guarantee discard_zeroes_data */ mddev->queue->limits.discard_zeroes_data = 0; @@ -6233,6 +6237,18 @@ static int run(struct mddev *mddev) !bdev_get_queue(rdev->bdev)-> limits.discard_zeroes_data) discard_supported = false; + /* Unfortunately, discard_zeroes_data is not currently + * a guarantee - just a hint. So we only allow DISCARD + * if the sysadmin has confirmed that only safe devices + * are in use by setting a module parameter. + */ + if (!devices_handle_discard_safely) { + if (discard_supported) { + pr_info("md/raid456: discard support disabled due to uncertainty.\n"); + pr_info("Set raid456.devices_handle_discard_safely=Y to override.\n"); + } + discard_supported = false; + } } if (discard_supported &&