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dm thin: restore requested 'error_if_no_space' setting on OODS to WRITE transition

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A thin-pool that is in out-of-data-space (OODS) mode may transition back
to write mode -- without the admin adding more space to the thin-pool --
if/when blocks are released (either by deleting thin devices or
discarding provisioned blocks).

But as part of the thin-pool's earlier transition to out-of-data-space
mode the thin-pool may have set the 'error_if_no_space' flag to true if
the no_space_timeout expires without more space having been made
available.  That implementation detail, of changing the pool's
error_if_no_space setting, needs to be reset back to the default that
the user specified when the thin-pool's table was loaded.

Otherwise we'll drop the user requested behaviour on the floor when this
out-of-data-space to write mode transition occurs.

Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Fixes: 2c43fd26e4 ("dm thin: fix missing out-of-data-space to write mode transition if blocks are released")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Mike Snitzer 2015-11-06 10:53:01 -05:00
parent 8005c49d9a
commit 172c238612
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@ -2432,6 +2432,7 @@ static void set_pool_mode(struct pool *pool, enum pool_mode new_mode)
case PM_WRITE:
if (old_mode != new_mode)
notify_of_pool_mode_change(pool, "write");
pool->pf.error_if_no_space = pt->requested_pf.error_if_no_space;
dm_pool_metadata_read_write(pool->pmd);
pool->process_bio = process_bio;
pool->process_discard = process_discard_bio;