* Keith Busch ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 03:33:55PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > * Keith Busch ([email protected]) wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 08:09:18PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > > > root@dalek:/home/dg# lvcreate  --mirrors 1 -L 1G main /dev/sda2 
> > > > /dev/sdb2
> > > 
> > > So this is a subtle difference from your original report which ran
> > > lvcreate a little differently:
> > > 
> > >   # lvcreate --type mirror --mirrors 1 -L 1G main /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
> > > 
> > > This patch series address problems with the original report with the
> > > "--type mirror" parameter, which uses dm-raid1.c instead of md/raid1.c.
> > 
> > Ah OK.
> > (I think I think I did say that somewhere, hmm ajFK5NXkxd6jU5zu@gallifrey ? 
> > )
> 
> I see. This will fix that setup:

And it does;
dg@dalek:~$ ./dbf
pread of 4096 said: -1 (Invalid argument)
dg@dalek:~$ ./dbf-write 
pwrite of 4096 said: -1 (Invalid argument)
dg@dalek:~$ ./dbf-joint 
pread of 4096 said: -1 (Invalid argument)
pwrite of 4096 said: -1 (Invalid argument)

and the log is clean.

Tested-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <[email protected]>

(It's a bit scary you're having to go around quite
a few places and make similar fixes; I assume there
are others that do similar things).

Thanks again,

Dave

> 
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
> index 5b9368bd9e700..17a5f0d98aacc 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
> @@ -322,7 +322,9 @@ static void call_bio_endio(struct r1bio *r1_bio)
>  {
>       struct bio *bio = r1_bio->master_bio;
>  
> -     if (!test_bit(R1BIO_Uptodate, &r1_bio->state))
> +     if (test_bit(R1BIO_Invalid, &r1_bio->state))
> +             bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_INVAL;
> +     else if (!test_bit(R1BIO_Uptodate, &r1_bio->state))
>               bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_IOERR;
>  
>       bio_endio(bio);
> @@ -403,6 +405,8 @@ static void raid1_end_read_request(struct bio *bio)
>               ;
>       } else if (!raid1_should_handle_error(bio)) {
>               uptodate = 1;
> +             if (bio->bi_status == BLK_STS_INVAL)
> +                     set_bit(R1BIO_Invalid, &r1_bio->state);
>       } else {
>               /* If all other devices have failed, we want to return
>                * the error upwards rather than fail the last device.
> @@ -519,6 +523,14 @@ static void raid1_end_write_request(struct bio *bio)
>                */
>               r1_bio->bios[mirror] = NULL;
>               to_put = bio;
> +             /*
> +              * An invalid I/O (e.g. a misaligned bio rejected by the lower
> +              * device) was ignored above rather than faulting the device.
> +              * It is not a successful write, though, so report the error to
> +              * the caller instead of completing the master bio as uptodate.
> +              */
> +             if (bio->bi_status == BLK_STS_INVAL)
> +                     set_bit(R1BIO_Invalid, &r1_bio->state);
>               /*
>                * Do not set R1BIO_Uptodate if the current device is
>                * rebuilding or Faulty. This is because we cannot use
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.h b/drivers/md/raid1.h
> index c98d43a7ae993..21e837db5b25e 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid1.h
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.h
> @@ -184,6 +184,12 @@ enum r1bio_state {
>       R1BIO_MadeGood,
>       R1BIO_WriteError,
>       R1BIO_FailFast,
> +/* An invalid I/O (e.g. a bio rejected by the lower device because it does
> + * not meet that device's dma_alignment) is not a device failure.  Report
> + * the error to the caller without faulting the device or retrying, and do
> + * not complete a write as if it had succeeded.
> + */
> +     R1BIO_Invalid,
>  };
>  
>  static inline int sector_to_idx(sector_t sector)
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
> index cee5a253a281d..3cee9612be26d 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
> @@ -323,7 +323,9 @@ static void raid_end_bio_io(struct r10bio *r10_bio)
>       struct r10conf *conf = r10_bio->mddev->private;
>  
>       if (!test_and_set_bit(R10BIO_Returned, &r10_bio->state)) {
> -             if (!test_bit(R10BIO_Uptodate, &r10_bio->state))
> +             if (test_bit(R10BIO_Invalid, &r10_bio->state))
> +                     bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_INVAL;
> +             else if (!test_bit(R10BIO_Uptodate, &r10_bio->state))
>                       bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_IOERR;
>               bio_endio(bio);
>       }
> @@ -403,6 +405,8 @@ static void raid10_end_read_request(struct bio *bio)
>               set_bit(R10BIO_Uptodate, &r10_bio->state);
>       } else if (!raid1_should_handle_error(bio)) {
>               uptodate = 1;
> +             if (bio->bi_status == BLK_STS_INVAL)
> +                     set_bit(R10BIO_Invalid, &r10_bio->state);
>       } else {
>               /* If all other devices that store this block have
>                * failed, we want to return the error upwards rather
> @@ -523,6 +527,8 @@ static void raid10_end_write_request(struct bio *bio)
>                * before rdev->recovery_offset, but for simplicity we don't
>                * check this here.
>                */
> +             if (bio->bi_status == BLK_STS_INVAL)
> +                     set_bit(R10BIO_Invalid, &r10_bio->state);
>               if (test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags) &&
>                   !test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags))
>                       set_bit(R10BIO_Uptodate, &r10_bio->state);
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.h b/drivers/md/raid10.h
> index ec79d87fb92f6..a1adad3acafe1 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid10.h
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.h
> @@ -175,5 +175,11 @@ enum r10bio_state {
>  /* failfast devices did receive failfast requests. */
>       R10BIO_FailFast,
>       R10BIO_Discard,
> +/* An invalid I/O (e.g. a bio rejected by the lower device because it does 
> not
> + * meet that device's queue_limits) is not a device failure. Report the error
> + * to the caller without faulting the device or retrying, and do not 
> complete a
> + * write as if it had succeeded.
> + */
> +     R10BIO_Invalid,
>  };
>  #endif
> --
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