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    dm zoned: properly handle backing device failure · 75d66ffb
    Dmitry Fomichev authored
    dm-zoned is observed to lock up or livelock in case of hardware
    failure or some misconfiguration of the backing zoned device.
    
    This patch adds a new dm-zoned target function that checks the status of
    the backing device. If the request queue of the backing device is found
    to be in dying state or the SCSI backing device enters offline state,
    the health check code sets a dm-zoned target flag prompting all further
    incoming I/O to be rejected. In order to detect backing device failures
    timely, this new function is called in the request mapping path, at the
    beginning of every reclaim run and before performing any metadata I/O.
    
    The proper way out of this situation is to do
    
    dmsetup remove <dm-zoned target>
    
    and recreate the target when the problem with the backing device
    is resolved.
    
    Fixes: 3b1a94c8 ("dm zoned: drive-managed zoned block device target")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Fomichev <dmitry.fomichev@wdc.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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