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    dm era: commit metadata in postsuspend after worker stops · 9ae6e8b1
    Nikos Tsironis authored
    During postsuspend dm-era does the following:
    
    1. Archives the current era
    2. Commits the metadata, as part of the RPC call for archiving the
       current era
    3. Stops the worker
    
    Until the worker stops, it might write to the metadata again. Moreover,
    these writes are not flushed to disk immediately, but are cached by the
    dm-bufio client, which writes them back asynchronously.
    
    As a result, the committed metadata of a suspended dm-era device might
    not be consistent with the in-core metadata.
    
    In some cases, this can result in the corruption of the on-disk
    metadata. Suppose the following sequence of events:
    
    1. Load a new table, e.g. a snapshot-origin table, to a device with a
       dm-era table
    2. Suspend the device
    3. dm-era commits its metadata, but the worker does a few more metadata
       writes until it stops, as part of digesting an archived writeset
    4. These writes are cached by the dm-bufio client
    5. Load the dm-era table to another device.
    6. The new instance of the dm-era target loads the committed, on-disk
       metadata, which don't include the extra writes done by the worker
       after the metadata commit.
    7. Resume the new device
    8. The new dm-era target instance starts using the metadata
    9. Resume the original device
    10. The destructor of the old dm-era target instance is called and
        destroys the dm-bufio client, which results in flushing the cached
        writes to disk
    11. These writes might overwrite the writes done by the new dm-era
        instance, hence corrupting its metadata.
    
    Fix this by committing the metadata after the worker stops running.
    
    stop_worker uses flush_workqueue to flush the current work. However, the
    work item may re-queue itself and flush_workqueue doesn't wait for
    re-queued works to finish.
    
    This could result in the worker changing the metadata after they have
    been committed, or writing to the metadata concurrently with the commit
    in the postsuspend thread.
    
    Use drain_workqueue instead, which waits until the work and all
    re-queued works finish.
    
    Fixes: eec40579 ("dm: add era target")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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