dm thin: fix a race condition between discarding and provisioning a block
The discard passdown was being issued after the block was unmapped,
which meant the block could be reprovisioned whilst the passdown discard
was still in flight.
We can only identify unshared blocks (safe to do a passdown a discard
to) once they're unmapped and their ref count hits zero. Block ref
counts are now used to guard against concurrent allocation of these
blocks that are being discarded. So now we unmap the block, issue
passdown discards, and the immediately increment ref counts for regions
that have been discarded via passed down (this is safe because
allocation occurs within the same thread). We then decrement ref counts
once the passdown discard IO is complete -- signaling these blocks may
now be allocated.
This fixes the potential for corruption that was reported here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2016-June/msg00311.html
Reported-by: Dennis Yang <dennisyang@qnap.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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