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    md/raid5: avoid livelock caused by non-aligned writes. · a40687ff
    NeilBrown authored
    If a stripe in a raid6 array received a write to each data block while
    the array is degraded, and if any of these writes to a missing device
    are not page-aligned, then a live-lock happens.
    
    In this case the P and Q blocks need to be read so that the part of
    the missing block which is *not* being updated by the write can be
    constructed.  Due to a logic error, these blocks are not loaded, so
    the update cannot proceed and the stripe is 'handled' repeatedly in an
    infinite loop.
    
    This bug is unlikely as most writes are page aligned.  However as it
    can lead to a livelock it is suitable for -stable.  It was introduced
    in 3.16.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.16)
    Fixed: 67f45548Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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