[PATCH] Revert "ctdb-daemon: Check packet generation against database generation"

[Martin Schwenke]

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 11:23:55 +1100, Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This revert avoids the race condition where dmaster packets are processed
> during recovery.  This causes ctdbd to abort due to miscalculation of
> lmaster since vnnmap has been updated.
> 
> Here are the details from commit message:
> 
> BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11707
> 
> The checks against database generation are not required since
> the global generation is updated as part of updating vnnmap
> before the actual database recovery.  This change was done in
> 5aab31a39a3589b910a78b96071d6aa5e6547696.
> 
> Checking only against the database generation is incomplete.  It can
> cause CTDB to abort if the following sequence of events happen.
> 
>  - CTDB gets REQ_DMASTER packet (gen1)
>    This packet processing gets deferred to get a record lock
> 
>  - CTDB goes into recovery, marks RECOVERY_ACTIVE
>    CTDB recovery helper updates vnnmap (gen2)
> 
>  - CTDB processes REQ_DMASTER packet (gen1)
>    The check against database generation (gen1) succeeds.
>    The check for lmaster is now invalid because VNNMAP has changed.
>    This will cause CTDB to abort due to protocol error.
> 
> Reverting the patch stops processing packets of older generation before
> they get into call processing.

Reviewed-by: Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin.net>

Pushed...

peace & happiness,
martin