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<title>dm delay: fix a possible deadlock due to shared workqueue</title>
<updated>2013-12-20T15:34:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2013-11-15T21:12:20+00:00</published>
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commit 718822c1c112dc99e0c72c8968ee1db9d9d910f0 upstream.

The dm-delay target uses a shared workqueue for multiple instances.  This
can cause deadlock if two or more dm-delay targets are stacked on the top
of each other.

This patch changes dm-delay to use a per-instance workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 718822c1c112dc99e0c72c8968ee1db9d9d910f0 upstream.

The dm-delay target uses a shared workqueue for multiple instances.  This
can cause deadlock if two or more dm-delay targets are stacked on the top
of each other.

This patch changes dm-delay to use a per-instance workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>dm: fix truncated status strings</title>
<updated>2013-12-08T15:29:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-01T22:45:44+00:00</published>
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commit fd7c092e711ebab55b2688d3859d95dfd0301f73 upstream.

Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting
the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the
buffer.

When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status
calls ti-&gt;type-&gt;status. If ti-&gt;type-&gt;status returns non-zero,
retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets
DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG.

However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method
on overflow. Most targets returns always zero.

If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the
table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in
retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it
goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned.

In the current code, the targets behave in the following way:
* dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the
  key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows.
* dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened.
  This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error
  code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow.
* all the other targets always return 0.

This patch changes the ti-&gt;type-&gt;status function to return void (because
most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in
retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space
completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fd7c092e711ebab55b2688d3859d95dfd0301f73 upstream.

Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting
the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the
buffer.

When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status
calls ti-&gt;type-&gt;status. If ti-&gt;type-&gt;status returns non-zero,
retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets
DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG.

However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method
on overflow. Most targets returns always zero.

If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the
table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in
retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it
goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned.

In the current code, the targets behave in the following way:
* dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the
  key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows.
* dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened.
  This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error
  code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow.
* all the other targets always return 0.

This patch changes the ti-&gt;type-&gt;status function to return void (because
most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in
retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space
completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T17:41:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T17:41:26+00:00</published>
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Device mapper uses sscanf to convert arguments to numbers. The problem is that
the way we use it ignores additional unmatched characters in the scanned string.

For example, this `if (sscanf(string, "%d", &amp;number) == 1)' will match a number,
but also it will match number with some garbage appended, like "123abc".

As a result, device mapper accepts garbage after some numbers. For example
the command `dmsetup create vg1-new --table "0 16384 linear 254:1bla 34816bla"'
will pass without an error.

This patch fixes all sscanf uses in device mapper. It appends "%c" with
a pointer to a dummy character variable to every sscanf statement.

The construct `if (sscanf(string, "%d%c", &amp;number, &amp;dummy) == 1)' succeeds
only if string is a null-terminated number (optionally preceded by some
whitespace characters). If there is some character appended after the number,
sscanf matches "%c", writes the character to the dummy variable and returns 2.
We check the return value for 1 and consequently reject numbers with some
garbage appended.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Device mapper uses sscanf to convert arguments to numbers. The problem is that
the way we use it ignores additional unmatched characters in the scanned string.

For example, this `if (sscanf(string, "%d", &amp;number) == 1)' will match a number,
but also it will match number with some garbage appended, like "123abc".

As a result, device mapper accepts garbage after some numbers. For example
the command `dmsetup create vg1-new --table "0 16384 linear 254:1bla 34816bla"'
will pass without an error.

This patch fixes all sscanf uses in device mapper. It appends "%c" with
a pointer to a dummy character variable to every sscanf statement.

The construct `if (sscanf(string, "%d%c", &amp;number, &amp;dummy) == 1)' succeeds
only if string is a null-terminated number (optionally preceded by some
whitespace characters). If there is some character appended after the number,
sscanf matches "%c", writes the character to the dummy variable and returns 2.
We check the return value for 1 and consequently reject numbers with some
garbage appended.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: convert workqueues to alloc_ordered</title>
<updated>2011-01-13T19:59:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-13T19:59:57+00:00</published>
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Convert all create[_singlethread]_work() users to the new
alloc[_ordered]_workqueue().  This conversion is mechanical and
doesn't introduce any behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Convert all create[_singlethread]_work() users to the new
alloc[_ordered]_workqueue().  This conversion is mechanical and
doesn't introduce any behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm delay: support discard</title>
<updated>2010-08-12T03:14:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-12T03:14:13+00:00</published>
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Enable discard support for the delay target.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Enable discard support for the delay target.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: use dm_target_offset macro</title>
<updated>2010-08-12T03:14:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alasdair G Kergon</name>
<email>agk@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-12T03:14:11+00:00</published>
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Use new dm_target_offset() macro to avoid most references to ti-&gt;begin
in dm targets.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Use new dm_target_offset() macro to avoid most references to ti-&gt;begin
in dm targets.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm table: remove unused dm_get_device range parameters</title>
<updated>2010-03-06T02:32:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikanth Karthikesan</name>
<email>knikanth@novell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-06T02:32:27+00:00</published>
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Remove unused parameters(start and len) of dm_get_device()
and fix the callers.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan &lt;knikanth@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Remove unused parameters(start and len) of dm_get_device()
and fix the callers.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan &lt;knikanth@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm table: pass correct dev area size to device_area_is_valid</title>
<updated>2009-07-23T19:30:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-23T19:30:42+00:00</published>
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Incorrect device area lengths are being passed to device_area_is_valid().

The regression appeared in 2.6.31-rc1 through commit
754c5fc7ebb417b23601a6222a6005cc2e7f2913.

With the dm-stripe target, the size of the target (ti-&gt;len) was used
instead of the stripe_width (ti-&gt;len/#stripes).  An example of a
consequent incorrect error message is:

  device-mapper: table: 254:0: sdb too small for target

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Incorrect device area lengths are being passed to device_area_is_valid().

The regression appeared in 2.6.31-rc1 through commit
754c5fc7ebb417b23601a6222a6005cc2e7f2913.

With the dm-stripe target, the size of the target (ti-&gt;len) was used
instead of the stripe_width (ti-&gt;len/#stripes).  An example of a
consequent incorrect error message is:

  device-mapper: table: 254:0: sdb too small for target

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm target:s introduce iterate devices fn</title>
<updated>2009-06-22T09:12:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-22T09:12:33+00:00</published>
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Add .iterate_devices to 'struct target_type' to allow a function to be
called for all devices in a DM target.  Implemented it for all targets
except those in dm-snap.c (origin and snapshot).

(The raid1 version number jumps to 1.12 because we originally reserved
1.1 to 1.11 for 'block_on_error' but ended up using 'handle_errors'
instead.)

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: martin.petersen@oracle.com
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Add .iterate_devices to 'struct target_type' to allow a function to be
called for all devices in a DM target.  Implemented it for all targets
except those in dm-snap.c (origin and snapshot).

(The raid1 version number jumps to 1.12 because we originally reserved
1.1 to 1.11 for 'block_on_error' but ended up using 'handle_errors'
instead.)

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: martin.petersen@oracle.com
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<entry>
<title>dm delay: support barriers</title>
<updated>2009-06-22T09:12:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-22T09:12:23+00:00</published>
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Flush support for dm-delay target.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Flush support for dm-delay target.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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