From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Subject: dead code question Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:27:33 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: gqjiang@suse.com Cc: linux-raid , NeilBrown , Goldwyn Rodrigues List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi, Another question regarding the cluster code. This one was introduced with: commit d15a1f72bd92bc4724ee94b2ae8132633ffeb72b Author: Guoqing Jiang Date: Mon Oct 19 16:03:19 2015 +0800 Safeguard against writing to an active device of another node Modifying an exiting device's superblock or creating a new superblock on an existing device needs to be checked because the device could be in use by another node in another array. So, we check this by taking all superblock locks in userspace so that we don't step onto an active device used by another node and safeguard against accidental edits. After the edit is complete, we release all locks and the lockspace so that it can be used by the kernel space. Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang Signed-off-by: NeilBrown [snip] +/* Create the lockspace, take bitmapXXX locks on all the bitmaps. */ +int cluster_get_dlmlock(struct supertype *st, int *lockid) +{ + int ret = -1; + char str[64]; + int flags = LKF_NOQUEUE; + + dlm_lock_res = xmalloc(sizeof(struct dlm_lock_resource)); + dlm_lock_res->ls = dlm_hooks->create_lockspace(st->cluster_name, O_RDWR); + if (!dlm_lock_res->ls) { + pr_err("%s failed to create lockspace\n", st->cluster_name); + goto out; + } + + /* Conversions need the lockid in the LKSB */ + if (flags & LKF_CONVERT) + dlm_lock_res->lksb.sb_lkid = *lockid; You set flags = LKF_NOQUEUE but later check (flags & LKF_CONVERT), which cannot be true given that: mdadm.h:#define LKF_NOQUEUE 0x00000001 mdadm.h:#define LKF_CONVERT 0x00000004 Is this a bug, or do you have pending patches for this? Cheers, Jes