md: Fix read balancing in RAID1 and RAID10 on drives > 2TB
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fri, 7 May 2010 22:20:17 +0000 (08:20 +1000)
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Tue, 18 May 2010 05:28:00 +0000 (15:28 +1000)
read_balance uses a "unsigned long" for a sector number which
will get truncated beyond 2TB.
This will cause read-balancing to be non-optimal, and can cause
data to be read from the 'wrong' branch during a resync.  This has a
very small chance of returning wrong data.

Reported-by: Jordan Russell <jr-list-2010@quo.to>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
drivers/md/raid1.c
drivers/md/raid10.c

index 1db02c4..a9b9972 100644 (file)
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ static void raid1_end_write_request(struct bio *bio, int error)
  */
 static int read_balance(conf_t *conf, r1bio_t *r1_bio)
 {
-       const unsigned long this_sector = r1_bio->sector;
+       const sector_t this_sector = r1_bio->sector;
        int new_disk = conf->last_used, disk = new_disk;
        int wonly_disk = -1;
        const int sectors = r1_bio->sectors;
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ static int read_balance(conf_t *conf, r1bio_t *r1_bio)
  retry:
        if (conf->mddev->recovery_cp < MaxSector &&
            (this_sector + sectors >= conf->next_resync)) {
-               /* Choose the first operation device, for consistancy */
+               /* Choose the first operational device, for consistancy */
                new_disk = 0;
 
                for (rdev = rcu_dereference(conf->mirrors[new_disk].rdev);
index e0742c4..a1f5fd2 100644 (file)
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ static int raid10_mergeable_bvec(struct request_queue *q,
  */
 static int read_balance(conf_t *conf, r10bio_t *r10_bio)
 {
-       const unsigned long this_sector = r10_bio->sector;
+       const sector_t this_sector = r10_bio->sector;
        int disk, slot, nslot;
        const int sectors = r10_bio->sectors;
        sector_t new_distance, current_distance;