Re: [PATCH v3] md/raid5: fix reshape deadlock while failed devices more than max degraded

"yu kuai" <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:37:32 +0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-raid,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
在 2026/6/24 15:58, Chen Cheng 写道:

> From: Chen Cheng<[email protected]>
>
> reshape stripe lifetime:
> - start reshape ==> reshape_request():
> 	* get destination stripe,
> 	  - if need to copy source data chunks, set STRIPE_EXPANDING;
> 	  - or, if new regions past the old end of the array, zero-filled,
> 	    no need source data, set STRIPE_EXPANDING | STRIPE_READY
> 	* get source stripe,
> 	  - set STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE
>
> - handle expand stripe ==> handle_stripe():
> 	reshape use reconstruct-write to construct stripe,
> 	four stages:
> 	1. prepare source data chunks for old geometry stripe
> 		- fill source stripe data by read or compute
> 	2. move data from old geometry source stripe to new geometry
> 	   destination stripe
> 		- source stripe clear STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE
> 		- drain data from source to destination stripe
> 		- mark stripe chunk as R5_Expanded|R5_UPTODATE when the
> 		  drain from source chunk to destionation chunk is completed
> 		- all stripe chunks drain are completed, then mark
> 		  STRIPE_EXPAND_READY
> 	3. calculate p/q chunks for destination stripe
> 		- if destination stripe does't depends on source dstripe,
> 		  then we can clear STRIPE_EXPANDING
> 	4. write-out to disks and release
> 		- set R5_Wantwrite|R5_Locked, writeout to disk
> 		- if write-out successed, clear STRIPE_EXPAND_READY, and
> 		  decrement reshape_stripe, call md_done_sync() to report
> 		  reshape progress.
>
> 1. cleanup the following kinds of **destination stripe**
> 	when failed device more than max degraded:
>    - new regions past the old end of the array, zero-filled in place,
>      requires no source data.
> 	(STRIPE_EXPANDING | STRIPE_EXPAND_READY)
>    - prepare source data chunks already done, and writeout failed
> 	(STRIPE_EXPAND_READY)
>
> 2. destination stripes that need source data
> 	(STRIPE_EXPANDING, no STRIPE_HANDLE)
>    - these kind of stripes sit idle in the stripe cache and are never seen
>      by handle_stripe(). So clean up indirectly when thier source stripe
>      (type 3) is processed.
>
> 3. source stripes (STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE)
>    - hit handle_stripe() after thier member disks are markded Faulty.
>    - clear STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE, finds and cleanup all dependent destination
>      stripes that were waiting for data.
>    - walks the source's data disks, compute the corresponding destination
>      sector, looks up the destination stripe, and do cleanup(clear flags,
>      dec counters, call md_done_sync())
>
> Reproducer:
>    - Create a 4-disk RAID5 with mdadm on top of 5 disposable test disks
>      wrapped by dm targets.
>    - Add the 5th device as a spare and start a 4 -> 5 reshape.
>    - Wait until /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action reports "reshape".
>    - Inject failures on two members so reshape exceeds max_degraded.
>    - After a few seconds, write "frozen" to /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action.
>      Before this fix, the write blocks indefinitely.
>
> Read-error variant:
>    - Use dm-dust on /dev/sd[b-f].
>    - Preload bad blocks on two source members, e.g. dust0 and dust1:
>        dmsetup message dust0 0 addbadblock <range>
>        dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock <range>
>    - Start reshape:
>        mdadm -C /dev/mdX -e 1.2 -l 5 -n 4 -c 64 --assume-clean /dev/mapper/dust{0..3}
>        mdadm --manage /dev/mdX --add /dev/mapper/dust4
>        mdadm --grow /dev/mdX -n 5 --backup-file=/tmp/grow.backup &
>    - Once reshape starts, enable the injected read failures:
>        dmsetup message dust0 0 enable
>        dmsetup message dust1 0 enable
>    - Then:
>        echo frozen > /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action
>      hangs forever before the fix.
>
> Write-error variant:
>    - Use dm-flakey on /dev/sd[b-f].
>    - Start the same 4 -> 5 reshape on flakey0..flakey4.
>    - Once reshape starts, switch two members, e.g. flakey3 and flakey4,
>      to error_writes.
>    - Then:
>        echo frozen > /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action
>      hangs forever before the fix.
>
> md_do_sync() exits its main loop on MD_RECOVERY_INTR but then blocks
> forever at:
>
>    wait_event(mddev->recovery_wait,
> 		!atomic_read(&mddev->recovery_active));
>
> After the fix recovery_active drains to zero, md_do_sync() prints
>
>      md/raid:md0: Cannot continue operation (2/5 failed).
>      md: md0: reshape interrupted.
>
> v2 -> v3:
> - just kick sashiko-bot to review my patch..
>
> changes v1 -> v2:
> - handle reshape write deadlock while failed devices more than max degraded
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Cheng<[email protected]>
> ---
>   drivers/md/raid5.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 74 insertions(+)
Applied to md-7.3 with change log removed.

-- 
Thanks,
Kuai