md/raid5: allow new reshape modes to be restarted in the middle.

md/raid5 doesn't allow a reshape to restart if it involves writing
over the same part of disk that it would be reading from.
This happens at the beginning of a reshape that increases the number
of devices, at the end of a reshape that decreases the number of
devices, and continuously for a reshape that does not change the
number of devices.

The current code is correct for the "increase number of devices"
case as the critical section at the start is handled by userspace
performing a backup.

It does not work for reducing the number of devices, or the
no-change case.
For 'reducing', we need to invert the test.  For no-change we cannot
really be sure things will be safe, so simply require the array
to be read-only, which is how the user-space code which carefully
starts such arrays works.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 2b521ee67dfa..b8a22a2205cf 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -4509,7 +4509,26 @@ static int run(mddev_t *mddev)
                            (old_disks-max_degraded));
                 /* here_old is the first stripe that we might need to read
                  * from */
-                if (here_new >= here_old) {
+                if (mddev->delta_disks == 0) {
+                        /* We cannot be sure it is safe to start an in-place
+                         * reshape.  It is only safe if user-space if monitoring
+                         * and taking constant backups.
+                         * mdadm always starts a situation like this in
+                         * readonly mode so it can take control before
+                         * allowing any writes.  So just check for that.
+                         */
+                        if ((here_new * mddev->new_chunk_sectors != 
+                             here_old * mddev->chunk_sectors) ||
+                            mddev->ro == 0) {
+                                printk(KERN_ERR "raid5: in-place reshape must be started"
+                                       " in read-only mode - aborting\n");
+                                return -EINVAL;
+                        }
+                } else if (mddev->delta_disks < 0
+                    ? (here_new * mddev->new_chunk_sectors <=
+                       here_old * mddev->chunk_sectors)
+                    : (here_new * mddev->new_chunk_sectors >=
+                       here_old * mddev->chunk_sectors)) {
                         /* Reading from the same stripe as writing to - bad */
                         printk(KERN_ERR "raid5: reshape_position too early for "
                                "auto-recovery - aborting.\n");