When there are no paths and multipath receives an ioctl, it waits until

a path becomes available.  This behaviour is incorrect if the
"queue_if_no_path" setting was not specified, as then the ioctl should
be rejected immediately, which this patch now does.

commit 35991652b ("dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init") should
have checked if queue_if_no_path was configured before queueing IO.

Checking for the queue_if_no_path feature, like is done in map_io(),
allows the following table load to work without blocking in the
multipath_ioctl retry loop:

  echo "0 1024 multipath 0 0 0 0" | dmsetup create mpath_nodevs

Without this fix the multipath_ioctl will block with the following stack
trace:

  blkid           D 0000000000000002     0 23936      1 0x00000000
   ffff8802b89e5cd8 0000000000000082 ffff8802b89e5fd8 0000000000012440
   ffff8802b89e4010 0000000000012440 0000000000012440 0000000000012440
   ffff8802b89e5fd8 0000000000012440 ffff88030c2aab30 ffff880325794040
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff814ce099>] schedule+0x29/0x70
   [<ffffffff814cc312>] schedule_timeout+0x182/0x2e0
   [<ffffffff8104dee0>] ? lock_timer_base+0x70/0x70
   [<ffffffff814cc48e>] schedule_timeout_uninterruptible+0x1e/0x20
   [<ffffffff8104f840>] msleep+0x20/0x30
   [<ffffffffa0000839>] multipath_ioctl+0x109/0x170 [dm_multipath]
   [<ffffffffa06bfb9c>] dm_blk_ioctl+0xbc/0xd0 [dm_mod]
   [<ffffffff8122a408>] __blkdev_driver_ioctl+0x28/0x30
   [<ffffffff8122a79e>] blkdev_ioctl+0xce/0x730
   [<ffffffff811970ac>] block_ioctl+0x3c/0x40
   [<ffffffff8117321c>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x8c/0x340
   [<ffffffff81166293>] ? sys_newfstat+0x33/0x40
   [<ffffffff81173571>] sys_ioctl+0xa1/0xb0
   [<ffffffff814d70a9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.5+
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index d8abb90a6c2fbecae99ae2de09ebc2f3d726731e..034233eefc8266eba122556fc6ffdb36e054eced 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -1555,6 +1555,7 @@ static int multipath_ioctl(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int cmd,
                           unsigned long arg)
 {
        struct multipath *m = ti->private;
+       struct pgpath *pgpath;
        struct block_device *bdev;
        fmode_t mode;
        unsigned long flags;
@@ -1570,12 +1571,14 @@ again:
        if (!m->current_pgpath)
                __choose_pgpath(m, 0);
 
-       if (m->current_pgpath) {
-               bdev = m->current_pgpath->path.dev->bdev;
-               mode = m->current_pgpath->path.dev->mode;
+       pgpath = m->current_pgpath;
+
+       if (pgpath) {
+               bdev = pgpath->path.dev->bdev;
+               mode = pgpath->path.dev->mode;
        }
 
-       if (m->queue_io)
+       if ((pgpath && m->queue_io) || (!pgpath && m->queue_if_no_path))
                r = -EAGAIN;
        else if (!bdev)
                r = -EIO;