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<title>dm: fix NULL pointer when clone_and_map_rq returns !DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED</title>
<updated>2015-06-29T19:29:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junichi Nomura</name>
<email>j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com</email>
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<published>2015-05-27T04:22:07+00:00</published>
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commit 3a1407559a593d4360af12dd2df5296bf8eb0d28 upstream.

When stacking request-based DM on blk_mq device, request cloning and
remapping are done in a single call to target's clone_and_map_rq().
The clone is allocated and valid only if clone_and_map_rq() returns
DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED.

The "IS_ERR(clone)" check in map_request() does not cover all the
!DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED cases that are possible (E.g. if underlying devices
are not ready or unavailable, clone_and_map_rq() may return
DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE without ever having established an ERR_PTR).  Fix this
by explicitly checking for a return that is not DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED in
map_request().

Without this fix, DM core may call setup_clone() for a NULL clone
and oops like this:

   BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000068
   IP: [&lt;ffffffff81227525&gt;] blk_rq_prep_clone+0x7d/0x137
   ...
   CPU: 2 PID: 5793 Comm: kdmwork-253:3 Not tainted 4.0.0-nm #1
   ...
   Call Trace:
    [&lt;ffffffffa01d1c09&gt;] map_tio_request+0xa9/0x258 [dm_mod]
    [&lt;ffffffff81071de9&gt;] kthread_worker_fn+0xfd/0x150
    [&lt;ffffffff81071cec&gt;] ? kthread_parkme+0x24/0x24
    [&lt;ffffffff81071cec&gt;] ? kthread_parkme+0x24/0x24
    [&lt;ffffffff81071fdd&gt;] kthread+0xe6/0xee
    [&lt;ffffffff81093a59&gt;] ? put_lock_stats+0xe/0x20
    [&lt;ffffffff81071ef7&gt;] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x5b/0x5b
    [&lt;ffffffff814c2d98&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
    [&lt;ffffffff81071ef7&gt;] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x5b/0x5b

Fixes: e5863d9ad ("dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on blk-mq devices")
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.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 3a1407559a593d4360af12dd2df5296bf8eb0d28 upstream.

When stacking request-based DM on blk_mq device, request cloning and
remapping are done in a single call to target's clone_and_map_rq().
The clone is allocated and valid only if clone_and_map_rq() returns
DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED.

The "IS_ERR(clone)" check in map_request() does not cover all the
!DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED cases that are possible (E.g. if underlying devices
are not ready or unavailable, clone_and_map_rq() may return
DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE without ever having established an ERR_PTR).  Fix this
by explicitly checking for a return that is not DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED in
map_request().

Without this fix, DM core may call setup_clone() for a NULL clone
and oops like this:

   BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000068
   IP: [&lt;ffffffff81227525&gt;] blk_rq_prep_clone+0x7d/0x137
   ...
   CPU: 2 PID: 5793 Comm: kdmwork-253:3 Not tainted 4.0.0-nm #1
   ...
   Call Trace:
    [&lt;ffffffffa01d1c09&gt;] map_tio_request+0xa9/0x258 [dm_mod]
    [&lt;ffffffff81071de9&gt;] kthread_worker_fn+0xfd/0x150
    [&lt;ffffffff81071cec&gt;] ? kthread_parkme+0x24/0x24
    [&lt;ffffffff81071cec&gt;] ? kthread_parkme+0x24/0x24
    [&lt;ffffffff81071fdd&gt;] kthread+0xe6/0xee
    [&lt;ffffffff81093a59&gt;] ? put_lock_stats+0xe/0x20
    [&lt;ffffffff81071ef7&gt;] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x5b/0x5b
    [&lt;ffffffff814c2d98&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
    [&lt;ffffffff81071ef7&gt;] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x5b/0x5b

Fixes: e5863d9ad ("dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on blk-mq devices")
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.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>md: don't return 0 from array_state_store</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T00:03:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-12T09:46:44+00:00</published>
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commit c008f1d356277a5b7561040596a073d87e56b0c8 upstream.

Returning zero from a 'store' function is bad.
The return value should be either len length of the string
or an error.

So use 'len' if 'err' is zero.

Fixes: 6791875e2e53 ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c008f1d356277a5b7561040596a073d87e56b0c8 upstream.

Returning zero from a 'store' function is bad.
The return value should be either len length of the string
or an error.

So use 'len' if 'err' is zero.

Fixes: 6791875e2e53 ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>md: Close race when setting 'action' to 'idle'.</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T00:03:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-12T09:51:27+00:00</published>
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commit 8e8e2518fceca407bb8fc2a6710d19d2e217892e upstream.

Checking -&gt;sync_thread without holding the mddev_lock()
isn't really safe, even after flushing the workqueue which
ensures md_start_sync() has been run.

While this code is waiting for the lock, md_check_recovery could reap
the thread itself, and then start another thread (e.g. recovery might
finish, then reshape starts).  When this thread gets the lock
md_start_sync() hasn't run so it doesn't get reaped, but
MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING gets cleared.  This allows two threads to start
which leads to confusion.

So don't both if MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING isn't set, but if it is do
the flush and the test and the reap all under the mddev_lock to
avoid any race with md_check_recovery.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Fixes: 6791875e2e53 ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8e8e2518fceca407bb8fc2a6710d19d2e217892e upstream.

Checking -&gt;sync_thread without holding the mddev_lock()
isn't really safe, even after flushing the workqueue which
ensures md_start_sync() has been run.

While this code is waiting for the lock, md_check_recovery could reap
the thread itself, and then start another thread (e.g. recovery might
finish, then reshape starts).  When this thread gets the lock
md_start_sync() hasn't run so it doesn't get reaped, but
MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING gets cleared.  This allows two threads to start
which leads to confusion.

So don't both if MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING isn't set, but if it is do
the flush and the test and the reap all under the mddev_lock to
avoid any race with md_check_recovery.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Fixes: 6791875e2e53 ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>md: fix race when unfreezing sync_action</title>
<updated>2015-06-06T15:21:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-28T07:53:29+00:00</published>
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commit 56ccc1125bc141cf63927eda7febff4216dea2d3 upstream.

A recent change removed the need for locking around writing
to "sync_action" (and various other places), but introduced a
subtle race.
When e.g. setting 'reshape' on a 'frozen' array, the 'frozen'
flag is cleared before 'reshape' is set, so the md thread can
get in and start trying recovery - which isn't wanted.

So instead of clearing MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN for any command
except 'frozen', only clear it when each specific command
is parsed.  This allows the handling of 'reshape' to clear
the bit while a lock is held.

Also remove some places where we set MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED,
as it is always set on non-error exit of the function.


Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Fixes: 6791875e2e53 ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 56ccc1125bc141cf63927eda7febff4216dea2d3 upstream.

A recent change removed the need for locking around writing
to "sync_action" (and various other places), but introduced a
subtle race.
When e.g. setting 'reshape' on a 'frozen' array, the 'frozen'
flag is cleared before 'reshape' is set, so the md thread can
get in and start trying recovery - which isn't wanted.

So instead of clearing MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN for any command
except 'frozen', only clear it when each specific command
is parsed.  This allows the handling of 'reshape' to clear
the bit while a lock is held.

Also remove some places where we set MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED,
as it is always set on non-error exit of the function.


Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Fixes: 6791875e2e53 ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>dm: fix reload failure of 0 path multipath mapping on blk-mq devices</title>
<updated>2015-06-06T15:21:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junichi Nomura</name>
<email>j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-29T08:51:03+00:00</published>
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commit 15b94a690470038aa08247eedbebbe7e2218d5ee upstream.

dm-multipath accepts 0 path mapping.

  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 0 0' | dmsetup create newdev

Such a mapping can be used to release underlying devices while still
holding requests in its queue until working paths come back.

However, once the multipath device is created over blk-mq devices,
it rejects reloading of 0 path mapping:

  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 1 1 queue-length 0 1 1 /dev/sda 1' \
      | dmsetup create mpath1
  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 0 0' | dmsetup load mpath1
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on mpath1 failed: Invalid argument
  Command failed

With following kernel message:
  device-mapper: ioctl: can't change device type after initial table load.

DM tries to inherit the current table type using dm_table_set_type()
but it doesn't work as expected because of unnecessary check about
whether the target type is hybrid or not.

Hybrid type is for targets that work as either request-based or bio-based
and not required for blk-mq or non blk-mq checking.

Fixes: 65803c205983 ("dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate")
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.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 15b94a690470038aa08247eedbebbe7e2218d5ee upstream.

dm-multipath accepts 0 path mapping.

  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 0 0' | dmsetup create newdev

Such a mapping can be used to release underlying devices while still
holding requests in its queue until working paths come back.

However, once the multipath device is created over blk-mq devices,
it rejects reloading of 0 path mapping:

  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 1 1 queue-length 0 1 1 /dev/sda 1' \
      | dmsetup create mpath1
  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 0 0' | dmsetup load mpath1
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on mpath1 failed: Invalid argument
  Command failed

With following kernel message:
  device-mapper: ioctl: can't change device type after initial table load.

DM tries to inherit the current table type using dm_table_set_type()
but it doesn't work as expected because of unnecessary check about
whether the target type is hybrid or not.

Hybrid type is for targets that work as either request-based or bio-based
and not required for blk-mq or non blk-mq checking.

Fixes: 65803c205983 ("dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate")
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.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 casting bug in dm_merge_bvec()</title>
<updated>2015-06-06T15:21:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Thornber</name>
<email>ejt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-29T13:52:51+00:00</published>
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commit 1c220c69ce0dcc0f234a9f263ad9c0864f971852 upstream.

dm_merge_bvec() was originally added in f6fccb ("dm: introduce
merge_bvec_fn").  In that commit a value in sectors is converted to
bytes using &lt;&lt; 9, and then assigned to an int.  This code made
assumptions about the value of BIO_MAX_SECTORS.

A later commit 148e51 ("dm: improve documentation and code clarity in
dm_merge_bvec") was meant to have no functional change but it removed
the use of BIO_MAX_SECTORS in favor of using queue_max_sectors().  At
this point the cast from sector_t to int resulted in a zero value.  The
fallout being dm_merge_bvec() would only allow a single page to be added
to a bio.

This interim fix is minimal for the benefit of stable@ because the more
comprehensive cleanup of passing a sector_t to all DM targets' merge
function will impact quite a few DM targets.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@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 1c220c69ce0dcc0f234a9f263ad9c0864f971852 upstream.

dm_merge_bvec() was originally added in f6fccb ("dm: introduce
merge_bvec_fn").  In that commit a value in sectors is converted to
bytes using &lt;&lt; 9, and then assigned to an int.  This code made
assumptions about the value of BIO_MAX_SECTORS.

A later commit 148e51 ("dm: improve documentation and code clarity in
dm_merge_bvec") was meant to have no functional change but it removed
the use of BIO_MAX_SECTORS in favor of using queue_max_sectors().  At
this point the cast from sector_t to int resulted in a zero value.  The
fallout being dm_merge_bvec() would only allow a single page to be added
to a bio.

This interim fix is minimal for the benefit of stable@ because the more
comprehensive cleanup of passing a sector_t to all DM targets' merge
function will impact quite a few DM targets.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@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>md/raid0: fix restore to sector variable in raid0_make_request</title>
<updated>2015-06-06T15:21:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Work</name>
<email>work.eric@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-19T06:26:23+00:00</published>
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commit a81157768a00e8cf8a7b43b5ea5cac931262374f upstream.

The variable "sector" in "raid0_make_request()" was improperly updated
by a call to "sector_div()" which modifies its first argument in place.
Commit 47d68979cc968535cb87f3e5f2e6a3533ea48fbd restored this variable
after the call for later re-use.  Unfortunetly the restore was done after
the referenced variable "bio" was advanced.  This lead to the original
value and the restored value being different.  Here we move this line to
the proper place.

One observed side effect of this bug was discarding a file though
unlinking would cause an unrelated file's contents to be discarded.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Fixes: 47d68979cc96 ("md/raid0: fix bug with chunksize not a power of 2.")
URL: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98501
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a81157768a00e8cf8a7b43b5ea5cac931262374f upstream.

The variable "sector" in "raid0_make_request()" was improperly updated
by a call to "sector_div()" which modifies its first argument in place.
Commit 47d68979cc968535cb87f3e5f2e6a3533ea48fbd restored this variable
after the call for later re-use.  Unfortunetly the restore was done after
the referenced variable "bio" was advanced.  This lead to the original
value and the restored value being different.  Here we move this line to
the proper place.

One observed side effect of this bug was discarding a file though
unlinking would cause an unrelated file's contents to be discarded.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Fixes: 47d68979cc96 ("md/raid0: fix bug with chunksize not a power of 2.")
URL: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98501
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>md/raid5: don't record new size if resize_stripes fails.</title>
<updated>2015-06-06T15:21:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-08T08:19:34+00:00</published>
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commit 6e9eac2dcee5e19f125967dd2be3e36558c42fff upstream.

If any memory allocation in resize_stripes fails we will return
-ENOMEM, but in some cases we update conf-&gt;pool_size anyway.

This means that if we try again, the allocations will be assumed
to be larger than they are, and badness results.

So only update pool_size if there is no error.

This bug was introduced in 2.6.17 and the patch is suitable for
-stable.

Fixes: ad01c9e3752f ("[PATCH] md: Allow stripes to be expanded in preparation for expanding an array")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6e9eac2dcee5e19f125967dd2be3e36558c42fff upstream.

If any memory allocation in resize_stripes fails we will return
-ENOMEM, but in some cases we update conf-&gt;pool_size anyway.

This means that if we try again, the allocations will be assumed
to be larger than they are, and badness results.

So only update pool_size if there is no error.

This bug was introduced in 2.6.17 and the patch is suitable for
-stable.

Fixes: ad01c9e3752f ("[PATCH] md: Allow stripes to be expanded in preparation for expanding an array")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.</title>
<updated>2015-05-17T16:55:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-27T04:12:22+00:00</published>
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commit 6cd18e711dd8075da9d78cfc1239f912ff28968a upstream.

Because of the peculiar way that md devices are created (automatically
when the device node is opened), a new device can be created and
registered immediately after the
	blk_unregister_region(disk_devt(disk), disk-&gt;minors);
call in del_gendisk().

Therefore it is important that all visible artifacts of the previous
device are removed before this call.  In particular, the 'bdi'.

Since:
commit c4db59d31e39ea067c32163ac961e9c80198fd37
Author: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
    fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info

moved the
   device_unregister(bdi-&gt;dev);
call from bdi_unregister() to bdi_destroy() it has been quite easy to
lose a race and have a new (e.g.) "md127" be created after the
blk_unregister_region() call and before bdi_destroy() is ultimately
called by the final 'put_disk', which must come after del_gendisk().

The new device finds that the bdi name is already registered in sysfs
and complains

&gt; [ 9627.630029] WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 3330 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x5a/0x70()
&gt; [ 9627.630032] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/bdi/9:127'

We can fix this by moving the bdi_destroy() call out of
blk_release_queue() (which can happen very late when a refcount
reaches zero) and into blk_cleanup_queue() - which happens exactly when the md
device driver calls it.

Then it is only necessary for md to call blk_cleanup_queue() before
del_gendisk().  As loop.c devices are also created on demand by
opening the device node, we make the same change there.

Fixes: c4db59d31e39ea067c32163ac961e9c80198fd37
Reported-by: Azat Khuzhin &lt;a3at.mail@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&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 6cd18e711dd8075da9d78cfc1239f912ff28968a upstream.

Because of the peculiar way that md devices are created (automatically
when the device node is opened), a new device can be created and
registered immediately after the
	blk_unregister_region(disk_devt(disk), disk-&gt;minors);
call in del_gendisk().

Therefore it is important that all visible artifacts of the previous
device are removed before this call.  In particular, the 'bdi'.

Since:
commit c4db59d31e39ea067c32163ac961e9c80198fd37
Author: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
    fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info

moved the
   device_unregister(bdi-&gt;dev);
call from bdi_unregister() to bdi_destroy() it has been quite easy to
lose a race and have a new (e.g.) "md127" be created after the
blk_unregister_region() call and before bdi_destroy() is ultimately
called by the final 'put_disk', which must come after del_gendisk().

The new device finds that the bdi name is already registered in sysfs
and complains

&gt; [ 9627.630029] WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 3330 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x5a/0x70()
&gt; [ 9627.630032] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/bdi/9:127'

We can fix this by moving the bdi_destroy() call out of
blk_release_queue() (which can happen very late when a refcount
reaches zero) and into blk_cleanup_queue() - which happens exactly when the md
device driver calls it.

Then it is only necessary for md to call blk_cleanup_queue() before
del_gendisk().  As loop.c devices are also created on demand by
opening the device node, we make the same change there.

Fixes: c4db59d31e39ea067c32163ac961e9c80198fd37
Reported-by: Azat Khuzhin &lt;a3at.mail@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&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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<title>Revert "dm crypt: fix deadlock when async crypto algorithm returns -EBUSY"</title>
<updated>2015-05-17T16:55:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rabin Vincent</name>
<email>rabin.vincent@axis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-05T13:15:56+00:00</published>
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commit c0403ec0bb5a8c5b267fb7e16021bec0b17e4964 upstream.

This reverts Linux 4.1-rc1 commit 0618764cb25f6fa9fb31152995de42a8a0496475.

The problem which that commit attempts to fix actually lies in the
Freescale CAAM crypto driver not dm-crypt.

dm-crypt uses CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG.  This means the the crypto
driver should internally backlog requests which arrive when the queue is
full and process them later.  Until the crypto hw's queue becomes full,
the driver returns -EINPROGRESS.  When the crypto hw's queue if full,
the driver returns -EBUSY, and if CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG is set, is
expected to backlog the request and process it when the hardware has
queue space.  At the point when the driver takes the request from the
backlog and starts processing it, it calls the completion function with
a status of -EINPROGRESS.  The completion function is called (for a
second time, in the case of backlogged requests) with a status/err of 0
when a request is done.

Crypto drivers for hardware without hardware queueing use the helpers,
crypto_init_queue(), crypto_enqueue_request(), crypto_dequeue_request()
and crypto_get_backlog() helpers to implement this behaviour correctly,
while others implement this behaviour without these helpers (ccp, for
example).

dm-crypt (before the patch that needs reverting) uses this API
correctly.  It queues up as many requests as the hw queues will allow
(i.e. as long as it gets back -EINPROGRESS from the request function).
Then, when it sees at least one backlogged request (gets -EBUSY), it
waits till that backlogged request is handled (completion gets called
with -EINPROGRESS), and then continues.  The references to
af_alg_wait_for_completion() and af_alg_complete() in that commit's
commit message are irrelevant because those functions only handle one
request at a time, unlink dm-crypt.

The problem is that the Freescale CAAM driver, which that commit
describes as having being tested with, fails to implement the
backlogging behaviour correctly.  In cam_jr_enqueue(), if the hardware
queue is full, it simply returns -EBUSY without backlogging the request.
What the observed deadlock was is not described in the commit message
but it is obviously the wait_for_completion() in crypto_convert() where
dm-crypto would wait for the completion being called with -EINPROGRESS
in the case of backlogged requests.  This completion will never be
completed due to the bug in the CAAM driver.

Commit 0618764cb25 incorrectly made dm-crypt wait for every request,
even when the driver/hardware queues are not full, which means that
dm-crypt will never see -EBUSY.  This means that that commit will cause
a performance regression on all crypto drivers which implement the API
correctly.

Revert it.  Correct backlog handling should be implemented in the CAAM
driver instead.

Cc'ing stable purely because commit 0618764cb25 did.  If for some reason
a stable@ kernel did pick up commit 0618764cb25 it should get reverted.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin.vincent@axis.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Horia Geanta &lt;horia.geanta@freescale.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 c0403ec0bb5a8c5b267fb7e16021bec0b17e4964 upstream.

This reverts Linux 4.1-rc1 commit 0618764cb25f6fa9fb31152995de42a8a0496475.

The problem which that commit attempts to fix actually lies in the
Freescale CAAM crypto driver not dm-crypt.

dm-crypt uses CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG.  This means the the crypto
driver should internally backlog requests which arrive when the queue is
full and process them later.  Until the crypto hw's queue becomes full,
the driver returns -EINPROGRESS.  When the crypto hw's queue if full,
the driver returns -EBUSY, and if CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG is set, is
expected to backlog the request and process it when the hardware has
queue space.  At the point when the driver takes the request from the
backlog and starts processing it, it calls the completion function with
a status of -EINPROGRESS.  The completion function is called (for a
second time, in the case of backlogged requests) with a status/err of 0
when a request is done.

Crypto drivers for hardware without hardware queueing use the helpers,
crypto_init_queue(), crypto_enqueue_request(), crypto_dequeue_request()
and crypto_get_backlog() helpers to implement this behaviour correctly,
while others implement this behaviour without these helpers (ccp, for
example).

dm-crypt (before the patch that needs reverting) uses this API
correctly.  It queues up as many requests as the hw queues will allow
(i.e. as long as it gets back -EINPROGRESS from the request function).
Then, when it sees at least one backlogged request (gets -EBUSY), it
waits till that backlogged request is handled (completion gets called
with -EINPROGRESS), and then continues.  The references to
af_alg_wait_for_completion() and af_alg_complete() in that commit's
commit message are irrelevant because those functions only handle one
request at a time, unlink dm-crypt.

The problem is that the Freescale CAAM driver, which that commit
describes as having being tested with, fails to implement the
backlogging behaviour correctly.  In cam_jr_enqueue(), if the hardware
queue is full, it simply returns -EBUSY without backlogging the request.
What the observed deadlock was is not described in the commit message
but it is obviously the wait_for_completion() in crypto_convert() where
dm-crypto would wait for the completion being called with -EINPROGRESS
in the case of backlogged requests.  This completion will never be
completed due to the bug in the CAAM driver.

Commit 0618764cb25 incorrectly made dm-crypt wait for every request,
even when the driver/hardware queues are not full, which means that
dm-crypt will never see -EBUSY.  This means that that commit will cause
a performance regression on all crypto drivers which implement the API
correctly.

Revert it.  Correct backlog handling should be implemented in the CAAM
driver instead.

Cc'ing stable purely because commit 0618764cb25 did.  If for some reason
a stable@ kernel did pick up commit 0618764cb25 it should get reverted.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin.vincent@axis.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Horia Geanta &lt;horia.geanta@freescale.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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