[Drbd-dev] DRBD-8 trunk crashes if NegDReply received in reply to
RSDataRequest
Graham, Simon
Simon.Graham at stratus.com
Sun Aug 6 04:29:11 CEST 2006
When an RSDataRequest is sent, the block_id field in the request is set
to SYNCER_ID (-1) - if the receiver is unable to process the request
(e.g. if the receiver doesn't have good data) then it sends back a
NegDReply with the same block_id - on the origin side, got_NegDReply
attempts to validate the block_id value using drbd_pr_verify which
promptly crashes attempting to reference the master_bio field to get the
sector (drbd_req_get_sector()).
I found this testing my fixes for removing panic() calls on meta data
read/write failures but I thought it was worth bugging separately;
clearly this routine needs to validate the request pointer before
attempting to access it at all, but also we should have got a
NedRSDreply in this case - so there are at least two bugs here:
1. The target side should have send a NegRSDreply in this case;
receive_DataRequest should switch on h->command
to decide what response to send when it bails early
2. drbd_pr_verify should NOT call drbd_req_get_sector() before
validating the pointer - is there any reason why
it shouldn't use the sector value passed in as a parameter?
I can make patches for these when we agree on the right solution...
Simon
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