dm cache: the CLEAN_SHUTDOWN flag was not being set
authorJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:10:55 +0000 (18:10 +0100)
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:02:56 +0000 (14:02 -0400)
If the CLEAN_SHUTDOWN flag is not set when a cache is loaded then all cache
blocks are marked as dirty and a full writeback occurs.

__commit_transaction() is responsible for setting/clearing
CLEAN_SHUTDOWN (based the flags_mutator that is passed in).

Fix this issue, of the cache's on-disk flags being wrong, by making sure
__commit_transaction() does not reset the flags after the mutator has
altered the flags in preparation for them being serialized to disk.

before:

sb_flags = mutator(le32_to_cpu(disk_super->flags));
disk_super->flags = cpu_to_le32(sb_flags);
disk_super->flags = cpu_to_le32(cmd->flags);

after:

disk_super->flags = cpu_to_le32(cmd->flags);
sb_flags = mutator(le32_to_cpu(disk_super->flags));
disk_super->flags = cpu_to_le32(sb_flags);

Reported-by: Bogdan Vasiliev <bogdan.vasiliev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c

index 20cc36b01b77895625adbe82a14923148d688edb..0a17d1b91a811d712a350c399d94cdc50322f0d0 100644 (file)
@@ -634,10 +634,10 @@ static int __commit_transaction(struct dm_cache_metadata *cmd,
 
        disk_super = dm_block_data(sblock);
 
+       disk_super->flags = cpu_to_le32(cmd->flags);
        if (mutator)
                update_flags(disk_super, mutator);
 
-       disk_super->flags = cpu_to_le32(cmd->flags);
        disk_super->mapping_root = cpu_to_le64(cmd->root);
        disk_super->hint_root = cpu_to_le64(cmd->hint_root);
        disk_super->discard_root = cpu_to_le64(cmd->discard_root);