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Rui Hua committed e393aa24461
bcache: recover data from backing when data is clean When we send a read request and hit the clean data in cache device, there is a situation called cache read race in bcache(see the commit in the tail of cache_look_up(), the following explaination just copy from there): The bucket we're reading from might be reused while our bio is in flight, and we could then end up reading the wrong data. We guard against this by checking (in bch_cache_read_endio()) if the pointer is stale again; if so, we treat it as an error (s->iop.error = -EINTR) and reread from the backing device (but we don't pass that error up anywhere) It should be noted that cache read race happened under normal circumstances, not the circumstance when SSD failed, it was counted and shown in /sys/fs/bcache/XXX/internal/cache_read_races. Without this patch, when we use writeback mode, we will never reread from the backing device when cache read race happened, until the whole cache device is clean, because the condition (s->recoverable && (dc && !atomic_read(&dc->has_dirty))) is false in cached_dev_read_error(). In this situation, the s->iop.error(= -EINTR) will be passed up, at last, user will receive -EINTR when it's bio end, this is not suitable, and wield to up-application. In this patch, we use s->read_dirty_data to judge whether the read request hit dirty data in cache device, it is safe to reread data from the backing device when the read request hit clean data. This can not only handle cache read race, but also recover data when failed read request from cache device. [edited by mlyle to fix up whitespace, commit log title, comment spelling] Fixes: d59b23795933 ("bcache: only permit to recovery read error when cache device is clean") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14 Signed-off-by: Hua Rui <huarui.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org> Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>