dm-mirror has potential data corruption problem: while on-disk log shows
that all disk contents are in-sync, actual contents of the disks are not
synchronized.  This problem occurs if initial recovery (synching) is
interrupted and resumed.

Attached patch fixes this problem.

Background:

rh_dec() changes the region state from RH_NOSYNC (out-of-sync) to RH_CLEAN
(in-sync), which results in the corresponding bit of clean_bits being set.

This is harmful if on-disk log is used and the map is removed/suspended
before the initial sync is completed.  The clean_bits is written down to
the on-disk log at the map removal, and, upon resume, it's read and copied
to sync_bits.  Since the recovery process refers to the sync_bits to find a
region to be recovered, the region whose state was changed from RH_NOSYNC
to RH_CLEAN is no longer recovered.

If you haven't applied dm-raid1-read-balancing.patch proposed in dm-devel
sometimes ago, the contents of the mirrored disk just corrupt silently.  If
you have, balanced read may get bogus data from out-of-sync disks.

The patch keeps RH_NOSYNC state unchanged.  It will be changed to
RH_RECOVERING when recovery starts and get reclaimed when the recovery
completes.  So it doesn't leak the region hash entry.

Description:

Keep RH_NOSYNC state unchanged when I/O on the region completes.

rh_dec() changes the region state from RH_NOSYNC (out-of-sync) to RH_CLEAN
(in-sync), which results in the corresponding bit of clean_bits being set.

This is harmful if on-disk log is used and the map is removed/suspended
before the initial sync is completed.  The clean_bits is written down to
the on-disk log at the map removal, and, upon resume, it's read and copied
to sync_bits.  Since the recovery process refers to the sync_bits to find a
region to be recovered, the region whose state was changed from RH_NOSYNC
to RH_CLEAN is no longer recovered.

If you haven't applied dm-raid1-read-balancing.patch proposed in dm-devel
sometimes ago, the contents of the mirrored disk just corrupt silently.  If
you have, balanced read may get bogus data from out-of-sync disks.

The RH_NOSYNC region will be changed to RH_RECOVERING when recovery starts
on the region and get reclaimed when the recovery completes.  So it doesn't
leak the region hash entry.

Alasdair said:

  I've analysed the relevant part of the state machine and I believe that
  the patch is correct.

  (Further work on this code is still needed - this patch has the
  side-effect of holding onto memory unnecessarily for long periods of time
  under certain workloads - but better that than corrupting data.)
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>