dm space map metadata: return on failure in sm_metadata_new_block

Commit 2fc4802 ("dm persistent
metadata: add space map threshold callback") introduced a regression
to the metadata block allocation path that resulted in errors being
ignored.  This regression was uncovered by running the following
device-mapper-test-suite test:
dmtest run --suite thin-provisioning -n /exhausting_metadata_space_causes_fail_mode/

The ignored error codes in sm_metadata_new_block() could crash the
kernel through use of either the dm-thin or dm-cache targets, e.g.:

device-mapper: thin: 253:4: reached low water mark for metadata device: sending event.
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
...
Workqueue: dm-thin do_worker [dm_thin_pool]
task: ffff880035ce2ab0 ti: ffff88021a054000 task.ti: ffff88021a054000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0331385>]  [<ffffffffa0331385>] metadata_ll_load_ie+0x15/0x30 [dm_persistent_data]
RSP: 0018:ffff88021a055a68  EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 003fc8243d212ba0 RBX: ffff88021a780070 RCX: ffff88021a055a78
RDX: ffff88021a055a78 RSI: 0040402222a92a80 RDI: ffff88021a780070
RBP: ffff88021a055a68 R08: ffff88021a055ba4 R09: 0000000000000010
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000002a02e1000 R12: ffff88021a055ad4
R13: 0000000000000598 R14: ffffffffa0338470 R15: ffff88021a055ba4
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88033fca0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00007f467c0291b8 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
Stack:
 ffff88021a055ab8 ffffffffa0332020 ffff88021a055b30 0000000000000001
 ffff88021a055b30 0000000000000000 ffff88021a055b18 0000000000000000
 ffff88021a055ba4 ffff88021a055b98 ffff88021a055ae8 ffffffffa033304c
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa0332020>] sm_ll_lookup_bitmap+0x40/0xa0 [dm_persistent_data]
 [<ffffffffa033304c>] sm_metadata_count_is_more_than_one+0x8c/0xc0 [dm_persistent_data]
 [<ffffffffa0333825>] dm_tm_shadow_block+0x65/0x110 [dm_persistent_data]
 [<ffffffffa0331b00>] sm_ll_mutate+0x80/0x300 [dm_persistent_data]
 [<ffffffffa0330e60>] ? set_ref_count+0x10/0x10 [dm_persistent_data]
 [<ffffffffa0331dba>] sm_ll_inc+0x1a/0x20 [dm_persistent_data]
 [<ffffffffa0332270>] sm_disk_new_block+0x60/0x80 [dm_persistent_data]
 [<ffffffff81520036>] ? down_write+0x16/0x40
 [<ffffffffa001e5c4>] dm_pool_alloc_data_block+0x54/0x80 [dm_thin_pool]
 [<ffffffffa001b23c>] alloc_data_block+0x9c/0x130 [dm_thin_pool]
 [<ffffffffa001c27e>] provision_block+0x4e/0x180 [dm_thin_pool]
 [<ffffffffa001fe9a>] ? dm_thin_find_block+0x6a/0x110 [dm_thin_pool]
 [<ffffffffa001c57a>] process_bio+0x1ca/0x1f0 [dm_thin_pool]
 [<ffffffff8111e2ed>] ? mempool_free+0x8d/0xa0
 [<ffffffffa001d755>] process_deferred_bios+0xc5/0x230 [dm_thin_pool]
 [<ffffffffa001d911>] do_worker+0x51/0x60 [dm_thin_pool]
 [<ffffffff81067872>] process_one_work+0x182/0x3b0
 [<ffffffff81068c90>] worker_thread+0x120/0x3a0
 [<ffffffff81068b70>] ? manage_workers+0x160/0x160
 [<ffffffff8106eb2e>] kthread+0xce/0xe0
 [<ffffffff8106ea60>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70
 [<ffffffff8152af6c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
 [<ffffffff8106ea60>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70
 [<ffffffff8152af6c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
 [<ffffffff8106ea60>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+

Author: snitm

drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-metadata.c

@@ -384,12 +384,16 @@ static int sm_metadata_new_block(struct dm_space_map *sm, dm_block_t *b)
 	struct sm_metadata *smm = container_of(sm, struct sm_metadata, sm);
 
 	int r = sm_metadata_new_block_(sm, b);
-	if (r)
+	if (r) {
 		DMERR("unable to allocate new metadata block");
+		return r;
+	}
 
 	r = sm_metadata_get_nr_free(sm, &count);
-	if (r)
+	if (r) {
 		DMERR("couldn't get free block count");
+		return r;
+	}
 
 	check_threshold(&smm->threshold, count);