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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2014-10-02 13:45:00 +1000
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2014-10-02 13:45:00 +1000
commit8e0e99ba64c7ba46133a7c8a3e3f7de01f23bd93 (patch)
tree16412e6a8d3776736afed01f36ba8d4c4836b28a /lib/find_last_bit.c
parentfe82dcec644244676d55a1384c958d5f67979adb (diff)
md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns.
It has come to my attention (thanks Martin) that 'discard_zeroes_data' is only a hint. Some devices in some cases don't do what it says on the label. The use of DISCARD in RAID5 depends on reads from discarded regions being predictably zero. If a write to a previously discarded region performs a read-modify-write cycle it assumes that the parity block was consistent with the data blocks. If all were zero, this would be the case. If some are and some aren't this would not be the case. This could lead to data corruption after a device failure when data needs to be reconstructed from the parity. As we cannot trust 'discard_zeroes_data', ignore it by default and so disallow DISCARD on all raid4/5/6 arrays. As many devices are trustworthy, and as there are benefits to using DISCARD, add a module parameter to over-ride this caution and cause DISCARD to work if discard_zeroes_data is set. If a site want to enable DISCARD on some arrays but not on others they should select DISCARD support at the filesystem level, and set the raid456 module parameter. raid456.devices_handle_discard_safely=Y As this is a data-safety issue, I believe this patch is suitable for -stable. DISCARD support for RAID456 was added in 3.7 Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.7+) Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Fixes: 620125f2bf8ff0c4969b79653b54d7bcc9d40637 Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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