[dm-devel] Possible data corruption with dm-thin

[Dennis Yang]

2016-06-21 16:59 GMT+08:00 Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac at redhat.com>:

> Dne 21.6.2016 v 09:56 Dennis Yang napsal(a):
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have been dealing with a data corruption issue when we run out I/O
>> test suite made by ourselves with multiple thin devices built on top of a
>> thin-pool. In our test suites, we will create multiple thin devices and
>> continually write to them, check the file checksum, and delete all files
>> and issue DISCARD to reclaim space if no checksum error takes place.
>>
>> We found that there is one data access pattern could corrupt the data.
>> Suppose that there are two thin devices A and B, and device A receives
>> a DISCARD bio to discard a physical(pool) block 100. Device A will quiesce
>> all previous I/O and held both virtual and physical data cell before it
>> actually remove the corresponding data mapping. After the data mapping
>> is removed, both data cell will be released and this DISCARD bio will
>> be passed down to underlying devices. If device B tries to allocate
>> a new block at the very same moment, it could reuse the block 100 which
>> was just been discarded by device A (suppose metadata commit had
>> been triggered, for a block cannot be reused in the same transaction).
>> In this case, we will have a race between the WRITE bio coming from
>> device B and the DISCARD bio coming from device A. Once the WRITE
>> bio completes before the DISCARD bio, there would be checksum error
>> for device B.
>>
>> So my question is, does dm-thin have any mechanism to eliminate the race
>> when
>> discarded block is reused right away by another device?
>>
>> Any help would be grateful.
>> Thanks,
>>
>
>
> Please provide version of kernel and surrounding tools (OS release
> version)?
> also are you using  'lvm2'  or you use directly 'dmsetup/ioctl' ?
> (in the later case we would need to see exact sequencing of operation).
>
> Also please provide  reproducer script.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Zdenek
>
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Hi Zdenek,

We are using a customized dm-thin driver based on linux 3.19.8 running
on our QNAP NAS. Also, we create all our thin devices with "lvm2". I am
afraid that I cannot provide the reproducer script since we reproduce this
by
running the I/O stress test suite on Windows to all thin devices exported
to
them via samba and iSCSI.

The following is the trace of thin-pool we dumped via blktrace. The data
corruption takes place from sector address 310150144 to 310150144 + 832.

252,19   1   154916   184.875465510 29959  Q   W 310150144 + 1024
[kworker/u8:0]
252,19   0   205964   185.496309521     0      C   W 310150144 + 1024 [0]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
At first, pool receives a 1024 sector WRITE bio which had allocated a pool
block.

252,19   3   353811   656.542481344 30280  Q   D 310150144 + 1024
[kworker/u8:8]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Pool receives a 1024 sector (thin block size) DISCARD bio passed down by
one of the thin device.

252,19   1   495204   656.558652936 30280  Q   W 310150144 + 832
[kworker/u8:8]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Another thin device passed down a 832 sector WRITE bio to the exact same
place.

252,19   3   353820   656.564140283     0      C   W 310150144 + 832 [0]
252,19   0   697455   656.770883592     0      C   D 310150144 + 1024 [0]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Although the DISCARD bio was queued before the WRITE bio, their completion
had
been reordered which could corrupt the data.

252,19   1   515212   684.425478220 20751  A   R 310150144 + 80 <- (252,22)
28932096
252,19   1   515213   684.425478325 20751  Q   R 310150144 + 80 [smbd]
252,19   0   725274   684.425741079 23937  C   R 310150144 + 80 [0]

Hope this helps.
Thanks,

Dennis

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