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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/block/floppy.c, branch v4.7.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>floppy: fix open(O_ACCMODE) for ioctl-only open</title>
<updated>2016-08-20T16:11:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-16T07:53:58+00:00</published>
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commit ff06db1efb2ad6db06eb5b99b88a0c15a9cc9b0e upstream.

Commit 09954bad4 ("floppy: refactor open() flags handling"), as a
side-effect, causes open(/dev/fdX, O_ACCMODE) to fail. It turns out that
this is being used setfdprm userspace for ioctl-only open().

Reintroduce back the original behavior wrt !(FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE)
modes, while still keeping the original O_NDELAY bug fixed.

Reported-by: Wim Osterholt &lt;wim@djo.tudelft.nl&gt;
Tested-by: Wim Osterholt &lt;wim@djo.tudelft.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ff06db1efb2ad6db06eb5b99b88a0c15a9cc9b0e upstream.

Commit 09954bad4 ("floppy: refactor open() flags handling"), as a
side-effect, causes open(/dev/fdX, O_ACCMODE) to fail. It turns out that
this is being used setfdprm userspace for ioctl-only open().

Reintroduce back the original behavior wrt !(FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE)
modes, while still keeping the original O_NDELAY bug fixed.

Reported-by: Wim Osterholt &lt;wim@djo.tudelft.nl&gt;
Tested-by: Wim Osterholt &lt;wim@djo.tudelft.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>floppy: refactor open() flags handling</title>
<updated>2016-02-06T22:00:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-06T22:00:22+00:00</published>
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In case /dev/fdX is open with O_NDELAY / O_NONBLOCK, floppy_open() immediately
succeeds, without performing any further media / controller preparations.
That's "correct" wrt. the NODELAY flag, but is hardly correct wrt. the rest
of the floppy driver, that is not really O_NONBLOCK ready, at all. Therefore
it's not too surprising, that subsequent attempts to work with the
filedescriptor produce bad results. Namely, syzkaller tool has been able
to livelock mmap() on the returned fd to keep waiting on the page unlock
bit forever.

Quite frankly, I have trouble defining what non-blocking behavior would be for
floppies. Is waiting ages for the driver to actually succeed reading a sector
blocking operation? Is waiting for drive motor to start blocking operation? How
about in case of virtualized floppies?

One option would be returning EWOULDBLOCK in case O_NDLEAY / O_NONBLOCK is
being passed to open(). That has a theoretical potential of breaking some
arcane and archaic userspace though.

Let's take a more conservative aproach, and accept the O_NDLEAY flag, and let
the driver behave as usual.

While at it, clean up a bit handling of !(mode &amp; (FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE))
case and return EINVAL instead of succeeding as well.

Spotted by syzkaller tool.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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In case /dev/fdX is open with O_NDELAY / O_NONBLOCK, floppy_open() immediately
succeeds, without performing any further media / controller preparations.
That's "correct" wrt. the NODELAY flag, but is hardly correct wrt. the rest
of the floppy driver, that is not really O_NONBLOCK ready, at all. Therefore
it's not too surprising, that subsequent attempts to work with the
filedescriptor produce bad results. Namely, syzkaller tool has been able
to livelock mmap() on the returned fd to keep waiting on the page unlock
bit forever.

Quite frankly, I have trouble defining what non-blocking behavior would be for
floppies. Is waiting ages for the driver to actually succeed reading a sector
blocking operation? Is waiting for drive motor to start blocking operation? How
about in case of virtualized floppies?

One option would be returning EWOULDBLOCK in case O_NDLEAY / O_NONBLOCK is
being passed to open(). That has a theoretical potential of breaking some
arcane and archaic userspace though.

Let's take a more conservative aproach, and accept the O_NDLEAY flag, and let
the driver behave as usual.

While at it, clean up a bit handling of !(mode &amp; (FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE))
case and return EINVAL instead of succeeding as well.

Spotted by syzkaller tool.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.5/for-jens' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/linux-block into for-linus</title>
<updated>2016-02-01T16:08:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-01T16:08:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=90b90d06db0be30aeb89b6b4ab618d644211a85e'/>
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Locking fix from Jiri
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Locking fix from Jiri
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<entry>
<title>floppy: fix lock_fdc() signal handling</title>
<updated>2016-02-01T10:19:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-01T10:19:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a0c80efe5956ccce9fe7ae5c78542578c07bc20a'/>
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floppy_revalidate() doesn't perform any error handling on lock_fdc()
result. lock_fdc() might actually be interrupted by a signal (it waits for
fdc becoming non-busy interruptibly). In such case, floppy_revalidate()
proceeds as if it had claimed the lock, but it fact it doesn't.

In case of multiple threads trying to open("/dev/fdX"), this leads to
serious corruptions all over the place, because all of a sudden there is
no critical section protection (that'd otherwise be guaranteed by locked
fd) whatsoever.

While at this, fix the fact that the 'interruptible' parameter to
lock_fdc() doesn't make any sense whatsoever, because we always wait
interruptibly anyway.

Most of the lock_fdc() callsites do properly handle error (and propagate
EINTR), but floppy_revalidate() and floppy_check_events() don't. Fix this.

Spotted by 'syzkaller' tool.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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floppy_revalidate() doesn't perform any error handling on lock_fdc()
result. lock_fdc() might actually be interrupted by a signal (it waits for
fdc becoming non-busy interruptibly). In such case, floppy_revalidate()
proceeds as if it had claimed the lock, but it fact it doesn't.

In case of multiple threads trying to open("/dev/fdX"), this leads to
serious corruptions all over the place, because all of a sudden there is
no critical section protection (that'd otherwise be guaranteed by locked
fd) whatsoever.

While at this, fix the fact that the 'interruptible' parameter to
lock_fdc() doesn't make any sense whatsoever, because we always wait
interruptibly anyway.

Most of the lock_fdc() callsites do properly handle error (and propagate
EINTR), but floppy_revalidate() and floppy_check_events() don't. Fix this.

Spotted by 'syzkaller' tool.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>floppy: make local variable non-static</title>
<updated>2015-12-08T14:15:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rasmus Villemoes</name>
<email>linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-01T14:54:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bcf4299e6215a475259c3ac329d43e776cfe9c0c'/>
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There's no reason for temparea to be static, since it's only used for
temporary sprintf output. It's not immediately obvious that the output
will always fit (in the worst case, the output including '\0' is
exactly 32 bytes), so save a future reader from worrying about that.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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There's no reason for temparea to be static, since it's only used for
temporary sprintf output. It's not immediately obvious that the output
will always fit (in the worst case, the output including '\0' is
exactly 32 bytes), so save a future reader from worrying about that.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add a bi_error field to struct bio</title>
<updated>2015-07-29T14:55:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-20T13:29:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4246a0b63bd8f56a1469b12eafeb875b1041a451'/>
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Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:

 (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
 (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback

The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario.  Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.

So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:

 (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
 (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback

The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario.  Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.

So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>floppy: Avoid manual call of device_create_file()</title>
<updated>2015-02-03T12:00:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-02T16:08:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b7f120b211510b80cb72c1d790d9a4531271edfa'/>
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Use the static attribute groups assigned to the device instead of
calling device_create_file() after the device registration.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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Use the static attribute groups assigned to the device instead of
calling device_create_file() after the device registration.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-jens' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/linux-block into for-linus</title>
<updated>2014-06-18T17:30:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-18T17:30:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e64d4687730cf47bd0c59e9ed76b52ca0c0f44c0'/>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>floppy: format block0 read error message properly</title>
<updated>2014-06-18T11:44:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-18T11:44:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1c65df3d7b1b311a73f5636a4ad6611f067baf1e'/>
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<content type='text'>
In case reading of block 0 fails, line without trailing newline
is printed causing dmesg to look horrible.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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In case reading of block 0 fails, line without trailing newline
is printed causing dmesg to look horrible.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.16/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-02T20:57:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-02T20:57:01+00:00</published>
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Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe:
 "Now that the core bits are in, here's the pull request for the driver
  related changes for 3.16.  Nothing out of the ordinary here, mostly
  business as usual.  There are a few pulls of for-3.16/core into this
  branch, which were done when the blk-mq was modified after the
  mtip32xx conversion was put in.

  The pull request contains:

   - skd and cciss converted to use pci_enable_msix_exact().  From
     Alexander Gordeev.

   - A few mtip32xx fixes from Asai @ Micron.

   - The conversion of mtip32xx from make_request_fn to blk-mq, and a
     later small fix for that conversion on quiescing for non-queued IO.
     From me.

   - A fix for bsg to use an exported function to check whether this
     driver is request based or not.  Needed updating for blk-mq, which
     is request based, but does not have a request_fn hook.  From me.

   - Small floppy bug fix from Jiri.

   - A series of cleanups for the cdrom uniform layer from Joe Perches.
     Gets rid of various old ugly macros, making the code conform more
     to the modern coding style.

   - A series of patches for drbd from the drbd crew (Lars Ellenberg and
     Philipp Reisner).

   - A use-after-free fix for null_blk from Ming Lei.

   - Also from Ming Lei is a performance patch for virtio-blk, which can
     net us a 3x win on kvm platforms where world notification is
     expensive.

   - Ming Lei also fixed a stall issue in virtio-blk, due to a race
     between queue start/stop and resource limits.

   - A small batch of fixes for xen-blk{back,front} from Olaf Hering and
     Valentin Priescu"

* 'for-3.16/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (54 commits)
  block: virtio_blk: don't hold spin lock during world switch
  xen-blkback: defer freeing blkif to avoid blocking xenwatch
  xen blkif.h: fix comment typo in discard-alignment
  xen/blkback: disable discard feature if requested by toolstack
  xen-blkfront: remove type check from blkfront_setup_discard
  floppy: do not corrupt bio.bi_flags when reading block 0
  mtip32xx: move error handling to service thread
  virtio_blk: fix race between start and stop queue
  mtip32xx: stop block hardware queues before quiescing IO
  mtip32xx: blk_mq_init_queue() returns an ERR_PTR
  mtip32xx: convert to use blk-mq
  cdrom: Remove unnecessary prototype for cdrom_get_disc_info
  cdrom: Remove unnecessary prototype for cdrom_mrw_exit
  cdrom: Remove cdrom_count_tracks prototype
  cdrom: Remove cdrom_get_next_writeable prototype
  cdrom: Remove cdrom_get_last_written prototype
  cdrom: Move mmc_ioctls above cdrom_ioctl to remove unnecessary prototype
  cdrom: Remove unnecessary sanitize_format prototype
  cdrom: Remove unnecessary check_for_audio_disc prototype
  cdrom: Remove prototype for open_for_data
  ...
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Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe:
 "Now that the core bits are in, here's the pull request for the driver
  related changes for 3.16.  Nothing out of the ordinary here, mostly
  business as usual.  There are a few pulls of for-3.16/core into this
  branch, which were done when the blk-mq was modified after the
  mtip32xx conversion was put in.

  The pull request contains:

   - skd and cciss converted to use pci_enable_msix_exact().  From
     Alexander Gordeev.

   - A few mtip32xx fixes from Asai @ Micron.

   - The conversion of mtip32xx from make_request_fn to blk-mq, and a
     later small fix for that conversion on quiescing for non-queued IO.
     From me.

   - A fix for bsg to use an exported function to check whether this
     driver is request based or not.  Needed updating for blk-mq, which
     is request based, but does not have a request_fn hook.  From me.

   - Small floppy bug fix from Jiri.

   - A series of cleanups for the cdrom uniform layer from Joe Perches.
     Gets rid of various old ugly macros, making the code conform more
     to the modern coding style.

   - A series of patches for drbd from the drbd crew (Lars Ellenberg and
     Philipp Reisner).

   - A use-after-free fix for null_blk from Ming Lei.

   - Also from Ming Lei is a performance patch for virtio-blk, which can
     net us a 3x win on kvm platforms where world notification is
     expensive.

   - Ming Lei also fixed a stall issue in virtio-blk, due to a race
     between queue start/stop and resource limits.

   - A small batch of fixes for xen-blk{back,front} from Olaf Hering and
     Valentin Priescu"

* 'for-3.16/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (54 commits)
  block: virtio_blk: don't hold spin lock during world switch
  xen-blkback: defer freeing blkif to avoid blocking xenwatch
  xen blkif.h: fix comment typo in discard-alignment
  xen/blkback: disable discard feature if requested by toolstack
  xen-blkfront: remove type check from blkfront_setup_discard
  floppy: do not corrupt bio.bi_flags when reading block 0
  mtip32xx: move error handling to service thread
  virtio_blk: fix race between start and stop queue
  mtip32xx: stop block hardware queues before quiescing IO
  mtip32xx: blk_mq_init_queue() returns an ERR_PTR
  mtip32xx: convert to use blk-mq
  cdrom: Remove unnecessary prototype for cdrom_get_disc_info
  cdrom: Remove unnecessary prototype for cdrom_mrw_exit
  cdrom: Remove cdrom_count_tracks prototype
  cdrom: Remove cdrom_get_next_writeable prototype
  cdrom: Remove cdrom_get_last_written prototype
  cdrom: Move mmc_ioctls above cdrom_ioctl to remove unnecessary prototype
  cdrom: Remove unnecessary sanitize_format prototype
  cdrom: Remove unnecessary check_for_audio_disc prototype
  cdrom: Remove prototype for open_for_data
  ...
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