Bug 185468
Summary: | kernel dm: striped access beyond end of device | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Alasdair Kergon <agk> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Alasdair Kergon <agk> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 4.0 | CC: | jbaron, jbrassow, mbroz |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | RHSA-2006-0575 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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Last Closed: | 2006-08-10 22:44:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Bug Blocks: | 181409 |
Description
Alasdair Kergon
2006-03-14 22:57:38 UTC
From: Kevin Corry <kevcorry.com> The dm-striped target currently does not enforce that the size of a stripe device be a multiple of the chunk-size. Under certain conditions, this can lead to I/O requests going off the end of an underlying device. This test-case shows one example. echo "0 100 linear /dev/hdb1 0" | dmsetup create linear0 echo "0 100 linear /dev/hdb1 100" | dmsetup create linear1 echo "0 200 striped 2 32 /dev/mapper/linear0 0 /dev/mapper/linear1 0" | \ dmsetup create stripe0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/stripe0 bs=1k This will produce the output: dd: writing '/dev/mapper/stripe0': Input/output error 97+0 records in 96+0 records out And in the kernel log will be: attempt to access beyond end of device dm-0: rw=0, want=104, limit=100 The patch below will check that the table size is a multiple of the stripe chunk-size when the table is created, which will prevent the above striped device from being created. This should not effect tools like LVM or EVMS, since in all the cases I can think of, striped devices are always created with the sizes being a multiple of the chunk-size. committed in stream u4 build 34.9. A test kernel with this patch is available from http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/ An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0575.html |