drbd: fix race between disconnect and receive_state
authorPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:09:16 +0000 (11:09 +0100)
committerPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Thu, 8 Nov 2012 15:58:12 +0000 (16:58 +0100)
commitb8853dbd8c6410d1faef2785e8ee4c990b068a77
tree5888fa63f3b5cd0c95f89bb122fd744159b85762
parent57bcb6cf1ddb1593face20a13b140be19af9f6cd
drbd: fix race between disconnect and receive_state

If the asender thread, or request_timer_fn(), or some other part of
the code, decided to drop the connection (because of timeout or other),
but the receiver just now was processing a P_STATE packet, there was a
chance that receive_state() would do a hard state change
"re-establishing" an already failed connection without additional handshake.

Log excerpt:
  Remote failed to finish a request within ko-count * timeout
  peer( Secondary -> Unknown ) conn( Connected -> Timeout ) pdsk( UpToDate -> DUnknown )
  asender terminated
  ...
  peer( Unknown -> Secondary ) conn( Timeout -> Connected ) pdsk( DUnknown -> UpToDate ) peer_isp( 0 -> 1 )
  ...
  Connection closed
  peer( Secondary -> Unknown ) conn( Connected -> Unconnected ) pdsk( UpToDate -> DUnknown ) peer_isp( 1 -> 0 )
  receiver terminated

Impact:
while the connection state is erroneously "Connected",
requests may be queued and even sent,
which would never be acknowledged,
and may have been missed by the cleanup.
These requests would never be completed.

The next drbd_suspend_io() will then lock up,
waiting forever for these requests to complete.

Fixed in several code paths:
  Make sure the connection state is NetworkFailure or worse
  before starting the cleanup in drbd_disconnect().
  This should make sure the cleanup won't miss any requests.

  Disallow receive_state() to "upgrade" the connection state
  from an error state. This will make sure the "illegal" state
  transition won't happen.

  For all connection failure states,
  relax the safe-guard in sanitize_state() again
  to silently mask out those state changes
  (e.g. Timeout -> Connected becomes Timeout -> Timeout).

 Note by Philipp Reisner:
  The 3rd chunk described as "relax the safe-guard..."
  is not there in 8.4 as it is relaxed to the maximum in
  8.4 already

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c