Chen Cheng 788e413946 md/raid5: fix reshape deadlock while failed devices more than max degraded
reshape stripe lifetime:
- start reshape ==> reshape_request():
	* get destination stripe,
	  - if need to copy source data chunks, set STRIPE_EXPANDING;
	  - or, if new regions past the old end of the array, zero-filled,
	    no need source data, set STRIPE_EXPANDING | STRIPE_READY
	* get source stripe,
	  - set STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE

- handle expand stripe ==> handle_stripe():
	reshape use reconstruct-write to construct stripe,
	four stages:
	1. prepare source data chunks for old geometry stripe
		- fill source stripe data by read or compute
	2. move data from old geometry source stripe to new geometry
	   destination stripe
		- source stripe clear STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE
		- drain data from source to destination stripe
		- mark stripe chunk as R5_Expanded|R5_UPTODATE when the
		  drain from source chunk to destination chunk is completed
		- all stripe chunks drain are completed, then mark
		  STRIPE_EXPAND_READY
	3. calculate p/q chunks for destination stripe
		- if destination stripe doesn't depends on source dstripe,
		  then we can clear STRIPE_EXPANDING
	4. write-out to disks and release
		- set R5_Wantwrite|R5_Locked, writeout to disk
		- if write-out succeeded, clear STRIPE_EXPAND_READY, and
		  decrement reshape_stripe, call md_done_sync() to report
		  reshape progress.

1. cleanup the following kinds of **destination stripe**
	when failed device more than max degraded:
  - new regions past the old end of the array, zero-filled in place,
    requires no source data.
	(STRIPE_EXPANDING | STRIPE_EXPAND_READY)
  - prepare source data chunks already done, and writeout failed
	(STRIPE_EXPAND_READY)

2. destination stripes that need source data
	(STRIPE_EXPANDING, no STRIPE_HANDLE)
  - these kind of stripes sit idle in the stripe cache and are never seen
    by handle_stripe(). So clean up indirectly when their source stripe
    (type 3) is processed.

3. source stripes (STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE)
  - hit handle_stripe() after their member disks are marked Faulty.
  - clear STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE, finds and cleanup all dependent destination
    stripes that were waiting for data.
  - walks the source's data disks, compute the corresponding destination
    sector, looks up the destination stripe, and do cleanup(clear flags,
    dec counters, call md_done_sync())

Reproducer:
  - Create a 4-disk RAID5 with mdadm on top of 5 disposable test disks
    wrapped by dm targets.
  - Add the 5th device as a spare and start a 4 -> 5 reshape.
  - Wait until /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action reports "reshape".
  - Inject failures on two members so reshape exceeds max_degraded.
  - After a few seconds, write "frozen" to /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action.
    Before this fix, the write blocks indefinitely.

Read-error variant:
  - Use dm-dust on /dev/sd[b-f].
  - Preload bad blocks on two source members, e.g. dust0 and dust1:
      dmsetup message dust0 0 addbadblock <range>
      dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock <range>
  - Start reshape:
      mdadm -C /dev/mdX -e 1.2 -l 5 -n 4 -c 64 \
            --assume-clean /dev/mapper/dust{0..3}
      mdadm --manage /dev/mdX --add /dev/mapper/dust4
      mdadm --grow /dev/mdX -n 5 --backup-file=/tmp/grow.backup &
  - Once reshape starts, enable the injected read failures:
      dmsetup message dust0 0 enable
      dmsetup message dust1 0 enable
  - Then:
      echo frozen > /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action
    hangs forever before the fix.

Write-error variant:
  - Use dm-flakey on /dev/sd[b-f].
  - Start the same 4 -> 5 reshape on flakey0..flakey4.
  - Once reshape starts, switch two members, e.g. flakey3 and flakey4,
    to error_writes.
  - Then:
      echo frozen > /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action
    hangs forever before the fix.

md_do_sync() exits its main loop on MD_RECOVERY_INTR but then blocks
forever at:

  wait_event(mddev->recovery_wait,
		!atomic_read(&mddev->recovery_active));

After the fix recovery_active drains to zero, md_do_sync() prints

    md/raid:md0: Cannot continue operation (2/5 failed).
    md: md0: reshape interrupted.

Signed-off-by: Chen Cheng <chencheng@fnnas.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@fygo.io>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624075824.2601110-1-chencheng@fnnas.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@fygo.io>
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