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<title>rbd: drop an unsafe assertion</title>
<updated>2015-02-27T01:48:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Elder</name>
<email>elder@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-25T13:36:02+00:00</published>
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commit 638c323c4d1f8eaf25224946e21ce8818f1bcee1 upstream.

Olivier Bonvalet reported having repeated crashes due to a failed
assertion he was hitting in rbd_img_obj_callback():

    Assertion failure in rbd_img_obj_callback() at line 2165:
	rbd_assert(which &gt;= img_request-&gt;next_completion);

With a lot of help from Olivier with reproducing the problem
we were able to determine the object and image requests had
already been completed (and often freed) at the point the
assertion failed.

There was a great deal of discussion on the ceph-devel mailing list
about this.  The problem only arose when there were two (or more)
object requests in an image request, and the problem was always
seen when the second request was being completed.

The problem is due to a race in the window between setting the
"done" flag on an object request and checking the image request's
next completion value.  When the first object request completes, it
checks to see if its successor request is marked "done", and if
so, that request is also completed.  In the process, the image
request's next_completion value is updated to reflect that both
the first and second requests are completed.  By the time the
second request is able to check the next_completion value, it
has been set to a value *greater* than its own "which" value,
which caused an assertion to fail.

Fix this problem by skipping over any completion processing
unless the completing object request is the next one expected.
Test only for inequality (not &gt;=), and eliminate the bad
assertion.

Tested-by: Olivier Bonvalet &lt;ob@daevel.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;elder@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 638c323c4d1f8eaf25224946e21ce8818f1bcee1 upstream.

Olivier Bonvalet reported having repeated crashes due to a failed
assertion he was hitting in rbd_img_obj_callback():

    Assertion failure in rbd_img_obj_callback() at line 2165:
	rbd_assert(which &gt;= img_request-&gt;next_completion);

With a lot of help from Olivier with reproducing the problem
we were able to determine the object and image requests had
already been completed (and often freed) at the point the
assertion failed.

There was a great deal of discussion on the ceph-devel mailing list
about this.  The problem only arose when there were two (or more)
object requests in an image request, and the problem was always
seen when the second request was being completed.

The problem is due to a race in the window between setting the
"done" flag on an object request and checking the image request's
next completion value.  When the first object request completes, it
checks to see if its successor request is marked "done", and if
so, that request is also completed.  In the process, the image
request's next_completion value is updated to reflect that both
the first and second requests are completed.  By the time the
second request is able to check the next_completion value, it
has been set to a value *greater* than its own "which" value,
which caused an assertion to fail.

Fix this problem by skipping over any completion processing
unless the completing object request is the next one expected.
Test only for inequality (not &gt;=), and eliminate the bad
assertion.

Tested-by: Olivier Bonvalet &lt;ob@daevel.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;elder@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drbd: merge_bvec_fn: properly remap bvm-&gt;bi_bdev</title>
<updated>2015-01-30T01:40:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lars Ellenberg</name>
<email>lars.ellenberg@linbit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-10T16:21:13+00:00</published>
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commit 3b9d35d744bb5139f9fed57f38c019bb8c7d351c upstream.

This was not noticed for many years. Affects operation if
md raid is used a backing device for DRBD.

CC: stable@kernel.org # v3.2+
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&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 3b9d35d744bb5139f9fed57f38c019bb8c7d351c upstream.

This was not noticed for many years. Affects operation if
md raid is used a backing device for DRBD.

CC: stable@kernel.org # v3.2+
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&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>
<entry>
<title>sunvdc: don't call VD_OP_GET_VTOC</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:22:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dwight Engen</name>
<email>dwight.engen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-30T19:55:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 85b0c6e62c48bb9179fd5b3e954f362fb346cbd5 ]

The VD_OP_GET_VTOC operation will succeed only if the vdisk backend has a
VTOC label, otherwise it will fail. In particular, it will return error
48 (ENOTSUP) if the disk has an EFI label. VTOC disk labels are already
handled by directly reading the disk in block/partitions/sun.c (enabled by
CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION which defaults to y on SPARC). Since port-&gt;label is
unused in the driver, remove the call and the field.

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 85b0c6e62c48bb9179fd5b3e954f362fb346cbd5 ]

The VD_OP_GET_VTOC operation will succeed only if the vdisk backend has a
VTOC label, otherwise it will fail. In particular, it will return error
48 (ENOTSUP) if the disk has an EFI label. VTOC disk labels are already
handled by directly reading the disk in block/partitions/sun.c (enabled by
CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION which defaults to y on SPARC). Since port-&gt;label is
unused in the driver, remove the call and the field.

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vio: fix reuse of vio_dring slot</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:22:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dwight Engen</name>
<email>dwight.engen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-19T13:43:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d0aedcd4f14a22e23b313f42b7e6e6ebfc0fbc31 ]

vio_dring_avail() will allow use of every dring entry, but when the last
entry is allocated then dr-&gt;prod == dr-&gt;cons which is indistinguishable from
the ring empty condition. This causes the next allocation to reuse an entry.
When this happens in sunvdc, the server side vds driver begins nack'ing the
messages and ends up resetting the ldc channel. This problem does not effect
sunvnet since it checks for &lt; 2.

The fix here is to just never allocate the very last dring slot so that full
and empty are not the same condition. The request start path was changed to
check for the ring being full a bit earlier, and to stop the blk_queue if
there is no space left. The blk_queue will be restarted once the ring is
only half full again. The number of ring entries was increased to 512 which
matches the sunvnet and Solaris vdc drivers, and greatly reduces the
frequency of hitting the ring full condition and the associated blk_queue
stop/starting. The checks in sunvent were adjusted to account for
vio_dring_avail() returning 1 less.

Orabug: 19441666
OraBZ: 14983

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d0aedcd4f14a22e23b313f42b7e6e6ebfc0fbc31 ]

vio_dring_avail() will allow use of every dring entry, but when the last
entry is allocated then dr-&gt;prod == dr-&gt;cons which is indistinguishable from
the ring empty condition. This causes the next allocation to reuse an entry.
When this happens in sunvdc, the server side vds driver begins nack'ing the
messages and ends up resetting the ldc channel. This problem does not effect
sunvnet since it checks for &lt; 2.

The fix here is to just never allocate the very last dring slot so that full
and empty are not the same condition. The request start path was changed to
check for the ring being full a bit earlier, and to stop the blk_queue if
there is no space left. The blk_queue will be restarted once the ring is
only half full again. The number of ring entries was increased to 512 which
matches the sunvnet and Solaris vdc drivers, and greatly reduces the
frequency of hitting the ring full condition and the associated blk_queue
stop/starting. The checks in sunvent were adjusted to account for
vio_dring_avail() returning 1 less.

Orabug: 19441666
OraBZ: 14983

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sunvdc: limit each sg segment to a page</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:22:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dwight Engen</name>
<email>dwight.engen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-19T13:42:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5eed69ffd248c9f68f56c710caf07db134aef28b ]

ldc_map_sg() could fail its check that the number of pages referred to
by the sg scatterlist was &lt;= the number of cookies.

This fixes the issue by doing a similar thing to the xen-blkfront driver,
ensuring that the scatterlist will only ever contain a segment count &lt;=
port-&gt;ring_cookies, and each segment will be page aligned, and &lt;= page
size. This ensures that the scatterlist is always mappable.

Orabug: 19347817
OraBZ: 15945

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5eed69ffd248c9f68f56c710caf07db134aef28b ]

ldc_map_sg() could fail its check that the number of pages referred to
by the sg scatterlist was &lt;= the number of cookies.

This fixes the issue by doing a similar thing to the xen-blkfront driver,
ensuring that the scatterlist will only ever contain a segment count &lt;=
port-&gt;ring_cookies, and each segment will be page aligned, and &lt;= page
size. This ensures that the scatterlist is always mappable.

Orabug: 19347817
OraBZ: 15945

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sunvdc: compute vdisk geometry from capacity</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:22:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Allen Pais</name>
<email>allen.pais@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-19T13:42:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit de5b73f08468b4fc5e2f6d1505f650262622f78b ]

The LDom diskserver doesn't return reliable geometry data. In addition,
the types for all fields in the vio_disk_geom are u16, which were being
truncated in the cast into the u8's of the Linux struct hd_geometry.

Modify vdc_getgeo() to compute the geometry from the disk's capacity in a
manner consistent with xen-blkfront::blkif_getgeo().

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit de5b73f08468b4fc5e2f6d1505f650262622f78b ]

The LDom diskserver doesn't return reliable geometry data. In addition,
the types for all fields in the vio_disk_geom are u16, which were being
truncated in the cast into the u8's of the Linux struct hd_geometry.

Modify vdc_getgeo() to compute the geometry from the disk's capacity in a
manner consistent with xen-blkfront::blkif_getgeo().

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sunvdc: add cdrom and v1.1 protocol support</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:22:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Allen Pais</name>
<email>allen.pais@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-19T13:42:14+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9bce21828d54a95143f1b74619705c2dd8e88b92 ]

Interpret the media type from v1.1 protocol to support CDROM/DVD.

For v1.0 protocol, a disk's size continues to be calculated from the
geometry returned by the vdisk server. The geometry returned by the server
can be less than the actual number of sectors available in the backing
image/device due to the rounding in the division used to compute the
geometry in the vdisk server.

In v1.1 protocol a disk's actual size in sectors is returned during the
handshake. Use this size when v1.1 protocol is negotiated. Since this size
will always be larger than the former geometry computed size, disks created
under v1.0 will be forwards compatible to v1.1, but not vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9bce21828d54a95143f1b74619705c2dd8e88b92 ]

Interpret the media type from v1.1 protocol to support CDROM/DVD.

For v1.0 protocol, a disk's size continues to be calculated from the
geometry returned by the vdisk server. The geometry returned by the server
can be less than the actual number of sectors available in the backing
image/device due to the rounding in the division used to compute the
geometry in the vdisk server.

In v1.1 protocol a disk's actual size in sectors is returned during the
handshake. Use this size when v1.1 protocol is negotiated. Since this size
will always be larger than the former geometry computed size, disks created
under v1.0 will be forwards compatible to v1.1, but not vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rbd: Fix error recovery in rbd_obj_read_sync()</title>
<updated>2014-11-14T16:48:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-22T07:17:24+00:00</published>
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commit a8d4205623ae965e36c68629db306ca0695a2771 upstream.

When we fail to allocate page vector in rbd_obj_read_sync() we just
basically ignore the problem and continue which will result in an oops
later. Fix the problem by returning proper error.

CC: Yehuda Sadeh &lt;yehuda@inktank.com&gt;
CC: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
CC: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Coverity-id: 1226882
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a8d4205623ae965e36c68629db306ca0695a2771 upstream.

When we fail to allocate page vector in rbd_obj_read_sync() we just
basically ignore the problem and continue which will result in an oops
later. Fix the problem by returning proper error.

CC: Yehuda Sadeh &lt;yehuda@inktank.com&gt;
CC: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
CC: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Coverity-id: 1226882
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drbd: compute the end before rb_insert_augmented()</title>
<updated>2014-11-14T16:47:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lai Jiangshan</name>
<email>laijs@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-18T14:49:41+00:00</published>
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commit 82cfb90bc99d7b7e0ec62d0505b9d4f06805d5db upstream.

Commit 98683650 "Merge branch 'drbd-8.4_ed6' into
for-3.8-drivers-drbd-8.4_ed6" switches to the new augment API, but the
new API requires that the tree is augmented before rb_insert_augmented()
is called, which is missing.

So we add the augment-code to drbd_insert_interval() when it travels the
tree up to down before rb_insert_augmented().  See the example in
include/linux/interval_tree_generic.h or Documentation/rbtree.txt.

drbd_insert_interval() may cancel the insertion when traveling, in this
case, the just added augment-code does nothing before cancel since the
@this node is already in the subtrees in this case.

CC: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruen@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&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 82cfb90bc99d7b7e0ec62d0505b9d4f06805d5db upstream.

Commit 98683650 "Merge branch 'drbd-8.4_ed6' into
for-3.8-drivers-drbd-8.4_ed6" switches to the new augment API, but the
new API requires that the tree is augmented before rb_insert_augmented()
is called, which is missing.

So we add the augment-code to drbd_insert_interval() when it travels the
tree up to down before rb_insert_augmented().  See the example in
include/linux/interval_tree_generic.h or Documentation/rbtree.txt.

drbd_insert_interval() may cancel the insertion when traveling, in this
case, the just added augment-code does nothing before cancel since the
@this node is already in the subtrees in this case.

CC: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruen@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drbd: fix regression 'out of mem, failed to invoke fence-peer helper'</title>
<updated>2014-10-09T19:18:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lars Ellenberg</name>
<email>lars.ellenberg@linbit.com</email>
</author>
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commit bbc1c5e8ad6dfebf9d13b8a4ccdf66c92913eac9 upstream.

Since linux kernel 3.13, kthread_run() internally uses
wait_for_completion_killable().  We sometimes may use kthread_run()
while we still have a signal pending, which we used to kick our threads
out of potentially blocking network functions, causing kthread_run() to
mistake that as a new fatal signal and fail.

Fix: flush_signals() before kthread_run().

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&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 bbc1c5e8ad6dfebf9d13b8a4ccdf66c92913eac9 upstream.

Since linux kernel 3.13, kthread_run() internally uses
wait_for_completion_killable().  We sometimes may use kthread_run()
while we still have a signal pending, which we used to kick our threads
out of potentially blocking network functions, causing kthread_run() to
mistake that as a new fatal signal and fail.

Fix: flush_signals() before kthread_run().

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&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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