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<title>block: protect iterate_bdevs() against concurrent close</title>
<updated>2017-06-07T22:46:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rabin Vincent</name>
<email>rabinv@axis.com</email>
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<published>2016-12-01T08:18:28+00:00</published>
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commit af309226db916e2c6e08d3eba3fa5c34225200c4 upstream.

If a block device is closed while iterate_bdevs() is handling it, the
following NULL pointer dereference occurs because bdev-&gt;b_disk is NULL
in bdev_get_queue(), which is called from blk_get_backing_dev_info() (in
turn called by the mapping_cap_writeback_dirty() call in
__filemap_fdatawrite_range()):

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000508
 IP: [&lt;ffffffff81314790&gt;] blk_get_backing_dev_info+0x10/0x20
 PGD 9e62067 PUD 9ee8067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 1 PID: 2422 Comm: sync Not tainted 4.5.0-rc7+ #400
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
 task: ffff880009f4d700 ti: ffff880009f5c000 task.ti: ffff880009f5c000
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81314790&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81314790&gt;] blk_get_backing_dev_info+0x10/0x20
 RSP: 0018:ffff880009f5fe68  EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88000ec17a38 RCX: ffffffff81a4e940
 RDX: 7fffffffffffffff RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88000ec176c0
 RBP: ffff880009f5fe68 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88000ec17860
 R13: ffffffff811b25c0 R14: ffff88000ec178e0 R15: ffff88000ec17a38
 FS:  00007faee505d700(0000) GS:ffff88000fb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
 CR2: 0000000000000508 CR3: 0000000009e8a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
 Stack:
  ffff880009f5feb8 ffffffff8112e7f5 0000000000000000 7fffffffffffffff
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 7fffffffffffffff 0000000000000001
  ffff88000ec178e0 ffff88000ec17860 ffff880009f5fec8 ffffffff8112e81f
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff8112e7f5&gt;] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x85/0x90
  [&lt;ffffffff8112e81f&gt;] filemap_fdatawrite+0x1f/0x30
  [&lt;ffffffff811b25d6&gt;] fdatawrite_one_bdev+0x16/0x20
  [&lt;ffffffff811bc402&gt;] iterate_bdevs+0xf2/0x130
  [&lt;ffffffff811b2763&gt;] sys_sync+0x63/0x90
  [&lt;ffffffff815d4272&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76
 Code: 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 87 f0 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 &lt;48&gt; 8b 80 08 05 00 00 5d
 RIP  [&lt;ffffffff81314790&gt;] blk_get_backing_dev_info+0x10/0x20
  RSP &lt;ffff880009f5fe68&gt;
 CR2: 0000000000000508
 ---[ end trace 2487336ceb3de62d ]---

The crash is easily reproducible by running the following command, if an
msleep(100) is inserted before the call to func() in iterate_devs():

 while :; do head -c1 /dev/nullb0; done &gt; /dev/null &amp; while :; do sync; done

Fix it by holding the bd_mutex across the func() call and only calling
func() if the bdev is opened.

Fixes: 5c0d6b60a0ba ("vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices")
Reported-and-tested-by: Wei Fang &lt;fangwei1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabinv@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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commit af309226db916e2c6e08d3eba3fa5c34225200c4 upstream.

If a block device is closed while iterate_bdevs() is handling it, the
following NULL pointer dereference occurs because bdev-&gt;b_disk is NULL
in bdev_get_queue(), which is called from blk_get_backing_dev_info() (in
turn called by the mapping_cap_writeback_dirty() call in
__filemap_fdatawrite_range()):

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000508
 IP: [&lt;ffffffff81314790&gt;] blk_get_backing_dev_info+0x10/0x20
 PGD 9e62067 PUD 9ee8067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 1 PID: 2422 Comm: sync Not tainted 4.5.0-rc7+ #400
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
 task: ffff880009f4d700 ti: ffff880009f5c000 task.ti: ffff880009f5c000
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81314790&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81314790&gt;] blk_get_backing_dev_info+0x10/0x20
 RSP: 0018:ffff880009f5fe68  EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88000ec17a38 RCX: ffffffff81a4e940
 RDX: 7fffffffffffffff RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88000ec176c0
 RBP: ffff880009f5fe68 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88000ec17860
 R13: ffffffff811b25c0 R14: ffff88000ec178e0 R15: ffff88000ec17a38
 FS:  00007faee505d700(0000) GS:ffff88000fb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
 CR2: 0000000000000508 CR3: 0000000009e8a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
 Stack:
  ffff880009f5feb8 ffffffff8112e7f5 0000000000000000 7fffffffffffffff
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 7fffffffffffffff 0000000000000001
  ffff88000ec178e0 ffff88000ec17860 ffff880009f5fec8 ffffffff8112e81f
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff8112e7f5&gt;] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x85/0x90
  [&lt;ffffffff8112e81f&gt;] filemap_fdatawrite+0x1f/0x30
  [&lt;ffffffff811b25d6&gt;] fdatawrite_one_bdev+0x16/0x20
  [&lt;ffffffff811bc402&gt;] iterate_bdevs+0xf2/0x130
  [&lt;ffffffff811b2763&gt;] sys_sync+0x63/0x90
  [&lt;ffffffff815d4272&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76
 Code: 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 87 f0 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 &lt;48&gt; 8b 80 08 05 00 00 5d
 RIP  [&lt;ffffffff81314790&gt;] blk_get_backing_dev_info+0x10/0x20
  RSP &lt;ffff880009f5fe68&gt;
 CR2: 0000000000000508
 ---[ end trace 2487336ceb3de62d ]---

The crash is easily reproducible by running the following command, if an
msleep(100) is inserted before the call to func() in iterate_devs():

 while :; do head -c1 /dev/nullb0; done &gt; /dev/null &amp; while :; do sync; done

Fix it by holding the bd_mutex across the func() call and only calling
func() if the bdev is opened.

Fixes: 5c0d6b60a0ba ("vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices")
Reported-and-tested-by: Wei Fang &lt;fangwei1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabinv@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block_dev: don't test bdev-&gt;bd_contains when it is not stable</title>
<updated>2017-06-07T22:46:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-12T15:21:51+00:00</published>
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commit bcc7f5b4bee8e327689a4d994022765855c807ff upstream.

bdev-&gt;bd_contains is not stable before calling __blkdev_get().
When __blkdev_get() is called on a parition with -&gt;bd_openers == 0
it sets
  bdev-&gt;bd_contains = bdev;
which is not correct for a partition.
After a call to __blkdev_get() succeeds, -&gt;bd_openers will be &gt; 0
and then -&gt;bd_contains is stable.

When FMODE_EXCL is used, blkdev_get() calls
   bd_start_claiming() -&gt;  bd_prepare_to_claim() -&gt; bd_may_claim()

This call happens before __blkdev_get() is called, so -&gt;bd_contains
is not stable.  So bd_may_claim() cannot safely use -&gt;bd_contains.
It currently tries to use it, and this can lead to a BUG_ON().

This happens when a whole device is already open with a bd_holder (in
use by dm in my particular example) and two threads race to open a
partition of that device for the first time, one opening with O_EXCL and
one without.

The thread that doesn't use O_EXCL gets through blkdev_get() to
__blkdev_get(), gains the -&gt;bd_mutex, and sets bdev-&gt;bd_contains = bdev;

Immediately thereafter the other thread, using FMODE_EXCL, calls
bd_start_claiming() from blkdev_get().  This should fail because the
whole device has a holder, but because bdev-&gt;bd_contains == bdev
bd_may_claim() incorrectly reports success.
This thread continues and blocks on bd_mutex.

The first thread then sets bdev-&gt;bd_contains correctly and drops the mutex.
The thread using FMODE_EXCL then continues and when it calls bd_may_claim()
again in:
			BUG_ON(!bd_may_claim(bdev, whole, holder));
The BUG_ON fires.

Fix this by removing the dependency on -&gt;bd_contains in
bd_may_claim().  As bd_may_claim() has direct access to the whole
device, it can simply test if the target bdev is the whole device.

Fixes: 6b4517a7913a ("block: implement bd_claiming and claiming block")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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commit bcc7f5b4bee8e327689a4d994022765855c807ff upstream.

bdev-&gt;bd_contains is not stable before calling __blkdev_get().
When __blkdev_get() is called on a parition with -&gt;bd_openers == 0
it sets
  bdev-&gt;bd_contains = bdev;
which is not correct for a partition.
After a call to __blkdev_get() succeeds, -&gt;bd_openers will be &gt; 0
and then -&gt;bd_contains is stable.

When FMODE_EXCL is used, blkdev_get() calls
   bd_start_claiming() -&gt;  bd_prepare_to_claim() -&gt; bd_may_claim()

This call happens before __blkdev_get() is called, so -&gt;bd_contains
is not stable.  So bd_may_claim() cannot safely use -&gt;bd_contains.
It currently tries to use it, and this can lead to a BUG_ON().

This happens when a whole device is already open with a bd_holder (in
use by dm in my particular example) and two threads race to open a
partition of that device for the first time, one opening with O_EXCL and
one without.

The thread that doesn't use O_EXCL gets through blkdev_get() to
__blkdev_get(), gains the -&gt;bd_mutex, and sets bdev-&gt;bd_contains = bdev;

Immediately thereafter the other thread, using FMODE_EXCL, calls
bd_start_claiming() from blkdev_get().  This should fail because the
whole device has a holder, but because bdev-&gt;bd_contains == bdev
bd_may_claim() incorrectly reports success.
This thread continues and blocks on bd_mutex.

The first thread then sets bdev-&gt;bd_contains correctly and drops the mutex.
The thread using FMODE_EXCL then continues and when it calls bd_may_claim()
again in:
			BUG_ON(!bd_may_claim(bdev, whole, holder));
The BUG_ON fires.

Fix this by removing the dependency on -&gt;bd_contains in
bd_may_claim().  As bd_may_claim() has direct access to the whole
device, it can simply test if the target bdev is the whole device.

Fixes: 6b4517a7913a ("block: implement bd_claiming and claiming block")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>writeback: Fix periodic writeback after fs mount</title>
<updated>2013-07-28T23:29:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-28T14:04:02+00:00</published>
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commit a5faeaf9109578e65e1a32e2a3e76c8b47e7dcb6 upstream.

Code in blkdev.c moves a device inode to default_backing_dev_info when
the last reference to the device is put and moves the device inode back
to its bdi when the first reference is acquired. This includes moving to
wb.b_dirty list if the device inode is dirty. The code however doesn't
setup timer to wake corresponding flusher thread and while wb.b_dirty
list is non-empty __mark_inode_dirty() will not set it up either. Thus
periodic writeback is effectively disabled until a sync(2) call which can
lead to unexpected data loss in case of crash or power failure.

Fix the problem by setting up a timer for periodic writeback in case we
add the first dirty inode to wb.b_dirty list in bdev_inode_switch_bdi().

Reported-by: Bert De Jonghe &lt;Bert.DeJonghe@amplidata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a5faeaf9109578e65e1a32e2a3e76c8b47e7dcb6 upstream.

Code in blkdev.c moves a device inode to default_backing_dev_info when
the last reference to the device is put and moves the device inode back
to its bdi when the first reference is acquired. This includes moving to
wb.b_dirty list if the device inode is dirty. The code however doesn't
setup timer to wake corresponding flusher thread and while wb.b_dirty
list is non-empty __mark_inode_dirty() will not set it up either. Thus
periodic writeback is effectively disabled until a sync(2) call which can
lead to unexpected data loss in case of crash or power failure.

Fix the problem by setting up a timer for periodic writeback in case we
add the first dirty inode to wb.b_dirty list in bdev_inode_switch_bdi().

Reported-by: Bert De Jonghe &lt;Bert.DeJonghe@amplidata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T17:13:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-08T17:13:35+00:00</published>
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Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs.

 - Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue
   bypass operation.

 - Fix for the hang on exceeded rq-&gt;datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging
   discard bios.

 - Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic
   workqueue mechanism.

 - Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James'
   tree.

 - A few random fixes.

* 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits)
  relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf
  partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's
  fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()
  block: fix max discard sectors limit
  blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start
  Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables
  writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue
  writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue
  writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list
  aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
  bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf
  block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec
  block: Add bio_alloc_pages()
  block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all()
  block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all()
  bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec
  raid1: use bio_copy_data()
  pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage
  pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data()
  block: Add bio_copy_data()
  ...
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Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs.

 - Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue
   bypass operation.

 - Fix for the hang on exceeded rq-&gt;datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging
   discard bios.

 - Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic
   workqueue mechanism.

 - Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James'
   tree.

 - A few random fixes.

* 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits)
  relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf
  partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's
  fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()
  block: fix max discard sectors limit
  blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start
  Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables
  writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue
  writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue
  writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list
  aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
  bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf
  block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec
  block: Add bio_alloc_pages()
  block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all()
  block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all()
  bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec
  raid1: use bio_copy_data()
  pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage
  pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data()
  block: Add bio_copy_data()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T03:49:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-08T03:49:51+00:00</published>
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Merge more incoming from Andrew Morton:

 - Various fixes which were stalled or which I picked up recently

 - A large rotorooting of the AIO code.  Allegedly to improve
   performance but I don't really have good performance numbers (I might
   have lost the email) and I can't raise Kent today.  I held this out
   of 3.9 and we could give it another cycle if it's all too late/scary.

I ended up taking only the first two thirds of the AIO rotorooting.  I
left the percpu parts and the batch completion for later.  - Linus

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (33 commits)
  aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h
  aio: kill ki_retry
  aio: kill ki_key
  aio: give shared kioctx fields their own cachelines
  aio: kill struct aio_ring_info
  aio: kill batch allocation
  aio: change reqs_active to include unreaped completions
  aio: use cancellation list lazily
  aio: use flush_dcache_page()
  aio: make aio_read_evt() more efficient, convert to hrtimers
  wait: add wait_event_hrtimeout()
  aio: refcounting cleanup
  aio: make aio_put_req() lockless
  aio: do fget() after aio_get_req()
  aio: dprintk() -&gt; pr_debug()
  aio: move private stuff out of aio.h
  aio: add kiocb_cancel()
  aio: kill return value of aio_complete()
  char: add aio_{read,write} to /dev/{null,zero}
  aio: remove retry-based AIO
  ...
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Merge more incoming from Andrew Morton:

 - Various fixes which were stalled or which I picked up recently

 - A large rotorooting of the AIO code.  Allegedly to improve
   performance but I don't really have good performance numbers (I might
   have lost the email) and I can't raise Kent today.  I held this out
   of 3.9 and we could give it another cycle if it's all too late/scary.

I ended up taking only the first two thirds of the AIO rotorooting.  I
left the percpu parts and the batch completion for later.  - Linus

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (33 commits)
  aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h
  aio: kill ki_retry
  aio: kill ki_key
  aio: give shared kioctx fields their own cachelines
  aio: kill struct aio_ring_info
  aio: kill batch allocation
  aio: change reqs_active to include unreaped completions
  aio: use cancellation list lazily
  aio: use flush_dcache_page()
  aio: make aio_read_evt() more efficient, convert to hrtimers
  wait: add wait_event_hrtimeout()
  aio: refcounting cleanup
  aio: make aio_put_req() lockless
  aio: do fget() after aio_get_req()
  aio: dprintk() -&gt; pr_debug()
  aio: move private stuff out of aio.h
  aio: add kiocb_cancel()
  aio: kill return value of aio_complete()
  char: add aio_{read,write} to /dev/{null,zero}
  aio: remove retry-based AIO
  ...
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<entry>
<title>aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T03:16:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>koverstreet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-07T23:19:08+00:00</published>
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Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zach Brown &lt;zab@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mfasheh@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Asai Thambi S P &lt;asamymuthupa@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Selvan Mani &lt;smani@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Bradshaw &lt;sbradshaw@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise &lt;bcrl@kvack.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zach Brown &lt;zab@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mfasheh@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Asai Thambi S P &lt;asamymuthupa@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Selvan Mani &lt;smani@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Bradshaw &lt;sbradshaw@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise &lt;bcrl@kvack.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>make blkdev_put() return void</title>
<updated>2013-05-07T06:16:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-06T02:11:03+00:00</published>
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same story as with the previous patches - note that return
value of blkdev_close() is lost, since there's nowhere the
caller (__fput()) could return it to.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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same story as with the previous patches - note that return
value of blkdev_close() is lost, since there's nowhere the
caller (__fput()) could return it to.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block_device_operations-&gt;release() should return void</title>
<updated>2013-05-07T06:16:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-06T01:52:57+00:00</published>
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The value passed is 0 in all but "it can never happen" cases (and those
only in a couple of drivers) *and* it would've been lost on the way
out anyway, even if something tried to pass something meaningful.
Just don't bother.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The value passed is 0 in all but "it can never happen" cases (and those
only in a couple of drivers) *and* it would've been lost on the way
out anyway, even if something tried to pass something meaningful.
Just don't bother.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/block_dev.c: no need to check inode-&gt;i_bdev in bd_forget()</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yan Hong</name>
<email>clouds.yan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T22:26:47+00:00</published>
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Its only caller evict() has promised a non-NULL inode-&gt;i_bdev.

Signed-off-by: Yan Hong &lt;clouds.yan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Its only caller evict() has promised a non-NULL inode-&gt;i_bdev.

Signed-off-by: Yan Hong &lt;clouds.yan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()</title>
<updated>2013-04-29T19:24:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gu Zheng</name>
<email>guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-29T18:55:52+00:00</published>
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blkdev_aio_read() test 'size' to see if it is equal or greater than the
target count we request(iocb-&gt;ki_left).  If so there is no need to call
iov_shorten() to reduce number of segments and the iovec's length.  So the
judgement should be changed to 'if (size &lt; iocb-&gt;ki_left)' instead.

Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma &lt;majianpeng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng &lt;guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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blkdev_aio_read() test 'size' to see if it is equal or greater than the
target count we request(iocb-&gt;ki_left).  If so there is no need to call
iov_shorten() to reduce number of segments and the iovec's length.  So the
judgement should be changed to 'if (size &lt; iocb-&gt;ki_left)' instead.

Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma &lt;majianpeng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng &lt;guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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