drbd: panic on delayed completion of aborted requests

"aborting" requests, or force-detaching the disk, is intended for
completely blocked/hung local backing devices which do no longer
complete requests at all, not even do error completions.  In this
situation, usually a hard-reset and failover is the only way out.

By "aborting", basically faking a local error-completion,
we allow for a more graceful swichover by cleanly migrating services.
Still the affected node has to be rebooted "soon".

By completing these requests, we allow the upper layers to re-use
the associated data pages.

If later the local backing device "recovers", and now DMAs some data
from disk into the original request pages, in the best case it will
just put random data into unused pages; but typically it will corrupt
meanwhile completely unrelated data, causing all sorts of damage.

Which means delayed successful completion,
especially for READ requests,
is a reason to panic().

We assume that a delayed *error* completion is OK,
though we still will complain noisily about it.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
index 859afdfe5a08..eeda8b8e9d8e 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
@@ -221,6 +221,43 @@ void drbd_request_endio(struct bio *bio, int error)
 		error = -EIO;
 	}
 
+
+	/* If this request was aborted locally before,
+	 * but now was completed "successfully",
+	 * chances are that this caused arbitrary data corruption.
+	 *
+	 * "aborting" requests, or force-detaching the disk, is intended for
+	 * completely blocked/hung local backing devices which do no longer
+	 * complete requests at all, not even do error completions.  In this
+	 * situation, usually a hard-reset and failover is the only way out.
+	 *
+	 * By "aborting", basically faking a local error-completion,
+	 * we allow for a more graceful swichover by cleanly migrating services.
+	 * Still the affected node has to be rebooted "soon".
+	 *
+	 * By completing these requests, we allow the upper layers to re-use
+	 * the associated data pages.
+	 *
+	 * If later the local backing device "recovers", and now DMAs some data
+	 * from disk into the original request pages, in the best case it will
+	 * just put random data into unused pages; but typically it will corrupt
+	 * meanwhile completely unrelated data, causing all sorts of damage.
+	 *
+	 * Which means delayed successful completion,
+	 * especially for READ requests,
+	 * is a reason to panic().
+	 *
+	 * We assume that a delayed *error* completion is OK,
+	 * though we still will complain noisily about it.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(req->rq_state & RQ_LOCAL_ABORTED)) {
+		if (__ratelimit(&drbd_ratelimit_state))
+			dev_emerg(DEV, "delayed completion of aborted local request; disk-timeout may be too aggressive\n");
+
+		if (!error)
+			panic("possible random memory corruption caused by delayed completion of aborted local request\n");
+	}
+
 	/* to avoid recursion in __req_mod */
 	if (unlikely(error)) {
 		what = (bio_data_dir(bio) == WRITE)