linux-stable.git/drivers/md/bcache, branch v4.7

bcache: bch_gc_thread() is not freezable

2016-05-24T15:00:45+00:00

bch_gc_thread() doesn't mark itself freezable, so calling try_to_freeze()
in its context is just an expensive no-op.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bcache: bch_allocator_thread() is not freezable

2016-05-24T15:00:43+00:00

bch_allocator_thread() is calling try_to_freeze(), but that's just an
expensive no-op given the fact that the thread is not marked freezable.

Bucket allocator has to be up and running to the very last stages of the
suspend, as the bcache I/O that's in flight (think of writing an
hibernation image to a swap device served by bcache).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bcache: bch_writeback_thread() is not freezable

2016-05-24T15:00:40+00:00

bch_writeback_thread() is calling try_to_freeze(), but that's just an
expensive no-op given the fact that the thread is not marked freezable.

I/O helper kthreads, exactly such as the bcache writeback thread, actually
shouldn't be freezable, because they are potentially necessary for
finalizing the image write-out.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bcache: switch to using blk_queue_write_cache()

2016-04-12T22:00:39+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig

bcache: fix cache_set_flush() NULL pointer dereference on OOM

2016-03-08T16:19:10+00:00

When bch_cache_set_alloc() fails to kzalloc the cache_set, the
asyncronous closure handling tries to dereference a cache_set that
hadn't yet been allocated inside of cache_set_flush() which is called
by __cache_set_unregister() during cleanup.  This appears to happen only
during an OOM condition on bcache_register.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wheeler 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

bcache: cleaned up error handling around register_cache()

2016-03-08T16:19:08+00:00

Fix null pointer dereference by changing register_cache() to return an int
instead of being void.  This allows it to return -ENOMEM or -ENODEV and
enables upper layers to handle the OOM case without NULL pointer issues.

See this thread:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.bcache.devel/3521

Fixes this error:
  gargamel:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo /dev/sdh2 > /sys/fs/bcache/register

  bcache: register_cache() error opening sdh2: cannot allocate memory
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000009b8
  IP: [] cache_set_flush+0x102/0x15c [bcache]
  PGD 120dff067 PUD 1119a3067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: veth ip6table_filter ip6_tables
  (...)
  CPU: 4 PID: 3371 Comm: kworker/4:3 Not tainted 4.4.2-amd64-i915-volpreempt-20160213bc1 #3
  Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/P8H67-M PRO, BIOS 3904 04/27/2013
  Workqueue: events cache_set_flush [bcache]
  task: ffff88020d5dc280 ti: ffff88020b6f8000 task.ti: ffff88020b6f8000
  RIP: 0010:[]  [] cache_set_flush+0x102/0x15c [bcache]

Signed-off-by: Eric Wheeler 
Tested-by: Marc MERLIN 
Cc:

bcache: fix race of writeback thread starting before complete initialization

2016-03-08T16:17:30+00:00

The bch_writeback_thread might BUG_ON in read_dirty() if
dc->sb==BDEV_STATE_DIRTY and bch_sectors_dirty_init has not yet completed
its related initialization.  This patch downs the dc->writeback_lock until
after initialization is complete, thus preventing bch_writeback_thread
from proceeding prematurely.

See this thread:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.bcache.devel/3453

Signed-off-by: Eric Wheeler 
Tested-by: Marc MERLIN 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2016-01-22T02:19:38+00:00

Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the block driver pull request for 4.5, with the exception of
  NVMe, which is in a separate branch and will be posted after this one.

  This pull request contains:

   - A set of bcache stability fixes, which have been acked by Kent.
     These have been used and tested for more than a year by the
     community, so it's about time that they got in.

   - A set of drbd updates from the drbd team (Andreas, Lars, Philipp)
     and Markus Elfring, Oleg Drokin.

   - A set of fixes for xen blkback/front from the usual suspects, (Bob,
     Konrad) as well as community based fixes from Kiri, Julien, and
     Peng.

   - A 2038 time fix for sx8 from Shraddha, with a fix from me.

   - A small mtip32xx cleanup from Zhu Yanjun.

   - A null_blk division fix from Arnd"

* 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (71 commits)
  null_blk: use sector_div instead of do_div
  mtip32xx: restrict variables visible in current code module
  xen/blkfront: Fix crash if backend doesn't follow the right states.
  xen/blkback: Fix two memory leaks.
  xen/blkback: make st_ statistics per ring
  xen/blkfront: Handle non-indirect grant with 64KB pages
  xen-blkfront: Introduce blkif_ring_get_request
  xen-blkback: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xen_blkif_schedule()
  xen/blkback: Free resources if connect_ring failed.
  xen/blocks: Return -EXX instead of -1
  xen/blkback: make pool of persistent grants and free pages per-queue
  xen/blkback: get the number of hardware queues/rings from blkfront
  xen/blkback: pseudo support for multi hardware queues/rings
  xen/blkback: separate ring information out of struct xen_blkif
  xen/blkfront: correct setting for xen_blkif_max_ring_order
  xen/blkfront: make persistent grants pool per-queue
  xen/blkfront: Remove duplicate setting of ->xbdev.
  xen/blkfront: Cleanup of comments, fix unaligned variables, and syntax errors.
  xen/blkfront: negotiate number of queues/rings to be used with backend
  xen/blkfront: split per device io_lock
  ...

md: more open-coded offset_in_page()

2016-01-04T15:29:12+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

bcache: Change refill_dirty() to always scan entire disk if necessary

2015-12-31T03:23:16+00:00

Previously, it would only scan the entire disk if it was starting from
the very start of the disk - i.e. if the previous scan got to the end.

This was broken by refill_full_stripes(), which updates last_scanned so
that refill_dirty was never triggering the searched_from_start path.

But if we change refill_dirty() to always scan the entire disk if
necessary, regardless of what last_scanned was, the code gets cleaner
and we fix that bug too.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe