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md:raid1: fix a dead loop when read from a WriteMostly disk
authorWei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com>
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 11:18:32 +0000 (19:18 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 8 May 2017 05:44:07 +0000 (07:44 +0200)
commit6541ad80d598cc810de25af437317b6e93a07232
tree4ba4b8ea8360d948a58c22d2185b7b5005e0324a
parent238adc343f488f0fea90060a6ffa0ced9be8d3c8
md:raid1: fix a dead loop when read from a WriteMostly disk

commit 816b0acf3deb6d6be5d0519b286fdd4bafade905 upstream.

If first_bad == this_sector when we get the WriteMostly disk
in read_balance(), valid disk will be returned with zero
max_sectors. It'll lead to a dead loop in make_request(), and
OOM will happen because of endless allocation of struct bio.

Since we can't get data from this disk in this case, so
continue for another disk.

Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/raid1.c