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<entry>
<title>block: use i_size_write() in bd_set_size()</title>
<updated>2013-03-20T15:03:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guo Chao</name>
<email>yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-21T23:16:42+00:00</published>
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commit d646a02a9d44d1421f273ae3923d97b47b918176 upstream.

blkdev_ioctl(GETBLKSIZE) uses i_size_read() to read size of block device.
If we update block size directly, reader may see intermediate result in
some machines and configurations.  Use i_size_write() instead.

Signed-off-by: Guo Chao &lt;yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Guo Chao &lt;yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: M. Hindess &lt;hindessm@uk.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan &lt;knikanth@suse.de&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;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit d646a02a9d44d1421f273ae3923d97b47b918176 upstream.

blkdev_ioctl(GETBLKSIZE) uses i_size_read() to read size of block device.
If we update block size directly, reader may see intermediate result in
some machines and configurations.  Use i_size_write() instead.

Signed-off-by: Guo Chao &lt;yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Guo Chao &lt;yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: M. Hindess &lt;hindessm@uk.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan &lt;knikanth@suse.de&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;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nbd: fsync and kill block device on shutdown</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T03:24:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-28T01:05:25+00:00</published>
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commit 3a2d63f87989e01437ba994df5f297528c353d7d upstream.

There are two problems with shutdown in the NBD driver.

1: Receiving the NBD_DISCONNECT ioctl does not sync the filesystem.

   This patch adds the sync operation into __nbd_ioctl()'s
   NBD_DISCONNECT handler.  This is useful because BLKFLSBUF is restricted
   to processes that have CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and the NBD client may not
   possess it (fsync of the block device does not sync the filesystem,
   either).

2: Once we clear the socket we have no guarantee that later reads will
   come from the same backing storage.

   The patch adds calls to kill_bdev() in __nbd_ioctl()'s socket
   clearing code so the page cache is cleaned, lest reads that hit on the
   page cache will return stale data from the previously-accessible disk.

Example:

    # qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sr0
    # file -s /dev/nbd0
    /dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.
    # qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
    # qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sda
    # file -s /dev/nbd0
    /dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.

While /dev/sda has:

    # file -s /dev/sda
    /dev/sda: x86 boot sector; etc.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Clements &lt;Paul.Clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Bligh &lt;alex@alex.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;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjusted context
 - s/\bnbd\b/lo/
 - Incorporate export of kill_bdev() from commit ff01bb483265
   ('fs: move code out of buffer.c')]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 3a2d63f87989e01437ba994df5f297528c353d7d upstream.

There are two problems with shutdown in the NBD driver.

1: Receiving the NBD_DISCONNECT ioctl does not sync the filesystem.

   This patch adds the sync operation into __nbd_ioctl()'s
   NBD_DISCONNECT handler.  This is useful because BLKFLSBUF is restricted
   to processes that have CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and the NBD client may not
   possess it (fsync of the block device does not sync the filesystem,
   either).

2: Once we clear the socket we have no guarantee that later reads will
   come from the same backing storage.

   The patch adds calls to kill_bdev() in __nbd_ioctl()'s socket
   clearing code so the page cache is cleaned, lest reads that hit on the
   page cache will return stale data from the previously-accessible disk.

Example:

    # qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sr0
    # file -s /dev/nbd0
    /dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.
    # qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
    # qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sda
    # file -s /dev/nbd0
    /dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.

While /dev/sda has:

    # file -s /dev/sda
    /dev/sda: x86 boot sector; etc.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Clements &lt;Paul.Clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Bligh &lt;alex@alex.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;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjusted context
 - s/\bnbd\b/lo/
 - Incorporate export of kill_bdev() from commit ff01bb483265
   ('fs: move code out of buffer.c')]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/block_dev.c: page cache wrongly left invalidated after revalidate_disk()</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T03:24:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>MITSUNARI Shigeo</name>
<email>herumi@nifty.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-22T00:42:01+00:00</published>
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commit 7630b661da330b35dd57b6f5d6d62b386f2dd751 upstream.

We found that bdev-&gt;bd_invalidated was left set once revalidate_disk()
is called, which results in page cache flush every time that device is
open.

Specifically, we found this problem in MD block device.  Once we resize
a MD device, mdadm --monitor periodically flush all page cache for that
device every 60 or 1000 seconds when it opens the device.

This bug lies since at least 3.2.0 till the latest kernel(3.6.2).  Patch
is attached.

The following steps will reproduce the problem.

1. prepair a block device (eg /dev/sdb).

2. create two partitions:

   sudo parted /dev/sdb
   mklabel gpt
   mkpart primary 0% 50%
   mkpart primary 50% 100%

3. create a md device.

   sudo mdadm -C /dev/md/hoge -l 1 -n 2 -e 1.2 --assume-clean --auto=md --symlink=no /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2

4. create file system and mount it

   sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/md/hoge
   sudo mkdir /mnt/test
   sudo mount /dev/md/hoge /mnt/test

5. try to resize the device

   sudo mdadm -G /dev/md/hoge --size=max

6. create a file to fill file cache.

  sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/test/data bs=1M count=10

and verify the current status of file by free command.

7. mdadm monitor will open the md device every 1000 seconds and you
   will find all file cache on the device are cleared.

The timing can be reduced by the following steps.

a) kill mdadm and restart it with --delay option

   /sbin/mdadm --monitor --delay=30 --pid-file /var/run/mdadm/monitor.pid --daemonise --scan --syslog

or open the md device directly.

   sudo dd if=/dev/md/hoge of=/dev/null bs=4096 count=1

Signed-off-by: MITSUNARI Shigeo &lt;herumi@nifty.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 7630b661da330b35dd57b6f5d6d62b386f2dd751 upstream.

We found that bdev-&gt;bd_invalidated was left set once revalidate_disk()
is called, which results in page cache flush every time that device is
open.

Specifically, we found this problem in MD block device.  Once we resize
a MD device, mdadm --monitor periodically flush all page cache for that
device every 60 or 1000 seconds when it opens the device.

This bug lies since at least 3.2.0 till the latest kernel(3.6.2).  Patch
is attached.

The following steps will reproduce the problem.

1. prepair a block device (eg /dev/sdb).

2. create two partitions:

   sudo parted /dev/sdb
   mklabel gpt
   mkpart primary 0% 50%
   mkpart primary 50% 100%

3. create a md device.

   sudo mdadm -C /dev/md/hoge -l 1 -n 2 -e 1.2 --assume-clean --auto=md --symlink=no /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2

4. create file system and mount it

   sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/md/hoge
   sudo mkdir /mnt/test
   sudo mount /dev/md/hoge /mnt/test

5. try to resize the device

   sudo mdadm -G /dev/md/hoge --size=max

6. create a file to fill file cache.

  sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/test/data bs=1M count=10

and verify the current status of file by free command.

7. mdadm monitor will open the md device every 1000 seconds and you
   will find all file cache on the device are cleared.

The timing can be reduced by the following steps.

a) kill mdadm and restart it with --delay option

   /sbin/mdadm --monitor --delay=30 --pid-file /var/run/mdadm/monitor.pid --daemonise --scan --syslog

or open the md device directly.

   sudo dd if=/dev/md/hoge of=/dev/null bs=4096 count=1

Signed-off-by: MITSUNARI Shigeo &lt;herumi@nifty.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: don't mark buffers beyond end of disk as mapped</title>
<updated>2012-05-30T23:44:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Moyer</name>
<email>jmoyer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-11T14:34:10+00:00</published>
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commit 080399aaaf3531f5b8761ec0ac30ff98891e8686 upstream.

Hi,

We have a bug report open where a squashfs image mounted on ppc64 would
exhibit errors due to trying to read beyond the end of the disk.  It can
easily be reproduced by doing the following:

[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# ls -l install.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142032896 Apr 30 16:46 install.img
[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# mount -o loop ./install.img /mnt/test
[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# dd if=/dev/loop0 of=/dev/null
dd: reading `/dev/loop0': Input/output error
277376+0 records in
277376+0 records out
142016512 bytes (142 MB) copied, 0.9465 s, 150 MB/s

In dmesg, you'll find the following:

squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[   43.106012] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106029] loop0: rw=0, want=277410, limit=277408
[   43.106039] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138704
[   43.106053] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106057] loop0: rw=0, want=277412, limit=277408
[   43.106061] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138705
[   43.106066] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106070] loop0: rw=0, want=277414, limit=277408
[   43.106073] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138706
[   43.106078] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106081] loop0: rw=0, want=277416, limit=277408
[   43.106085] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138707
[   43.106089] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106093] loop0: rw=0, want=277418, limit=277408
[   43.106096] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138708
[   43.106101] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106104] loop0: rw=0, want=277420, limit=277408
[   43.106108] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138709
[   43.106112] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106116] loop0: rw=0, want=277422, limit=277408
[   43.106120] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138710
[   43.106124] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106128] loop0: rw=0, want=277424, limit=277408
[   43.106131] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138711
[   43.106135] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106139] loop0: rw=0, want=277426, limit=277408
[   43.106143] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138712
[   43.106147] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106151] loop0: rw=0, want=277428, limit=277408
[   43.106154] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138713
[   43.106158] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106162] loop0: rw=0, want=277430, limit=277408
[   43.106166] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106169] loop0: rw=0, want=277432, limit=277408
...
[   43.106307] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106311] loop0: rw=0, want=277470, limit=2774

Squashfs manages to read in the end block(s) of the disk during the
mount operation.  Then, when dd reads the block device, it leads to
block_read_full_page being called with buffers that are beyond end of
disk, but are marked as mapped.  Thus, it would end up submitting read
I/O against them, resulting in the errors mentioned above.  I fixed the
problem by modifying init_page_buffers to only set the buffer mapped if
it fell inside of i_size.

Cheers,
Jeff

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;

--

Changes from v1-&gt;v2: re-used max_block, as suggested by Nick Piggin.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 080399aaaf3531f5b8761ec0ac30ff98891e8686 upstream.

Hi,

We have a bug report open where a squashfs image mounted on ppc64 would
exhibit errors due to trying to read beyond the end of the disk.  It can
easily be reproduced by doing the following:

[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# ls -l install.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142032896 Apr 30 16:46 install.img
[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# mount -o loop ./install.img /mnt/test
[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# dd if=/dev/loop0 of=/dev/null
dd: reading `/dev/loop0': Input/output error
277376+0 records in
277376+0 records out
142016512 bytes (142 MB) copied, 0.9465 s, 150 MB/s

In dmesg, you'll find the following:

squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[   43.106012] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106029] loop0: rw=0, want=277410, limit=277408
[   43.106039] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138704
[   43.106053] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106057] loop0: rw=0, want=277412, limit=277408
[   43.106061] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138705
[   43.106066] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106070] loop0: rw=0, want=277414, limit=277408
[   43.106073] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138706
[   43.106078] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106081] loop0: rw=0, want=277416, limit=277408
[   43.106085] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138707
[   43.106089] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106093] loop0: rw=0, want=277418, limit=277408
[   43.106096] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138708
[   43.106101] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106104] loop0: rw=0, want=277420, limit=277408
[   43.106108] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138709
[   43.106112] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106116] loop0: rw=0, want=277422, limit=277408
[   43.106120] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138710
[   43.106124] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106128] loop0: rw=0, want=277424, limit=277408
[   43.106131] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138711
[   43.106135] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106139] loop0: rw=0, want=277426, limit=277408
[   43.106143] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138712
[   43.106147] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106151] loop0: rw=0, want=277428, limit=277408
[   43.106154] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138713
[   43.106158] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106162] loop0: rw=0, want=277430, limit=277408
[   43.106166] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106169] loop0: rw=0, want=277432, limit=277408
...
[   43.106307] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106311] loop0: rw=0, want=277470, limit=2774

Squashfs manages to read in the end block(s) of the disk during the
mount operation.  Then, when dd reads the block device, it leads to
block_read_full_page being called with buffers that are beyond end of
disk, but are marked as mapped.  Thus, it would end up submitting read
I/O against them, resulting in the errors mentioned above.  I fixed the
problem by modifying init_page_buffers to only set the buffer mapped if
it fell inside of i_size.

Cheers,
Jeff

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;

--

Changes from v1-&gt;v2: re-used max_block, as suggested by Nick Piggin.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_disk</title>
<updated>2012-03-19T16:02:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jun'ichi Nomura</name>
<email>j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-02T09:38:33+00:00</published>
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commit fe316bf2d5847bc5dd975668671a7b1067603bc7 upstream.

Since 2.6.39 (1196f8b), when a driver returns -ENOMEDIUM for open(),
__blkdev_get() calls rescan_partitions() to remove
in-kernel partition structures and raise KOBJ_CHANGE uevent.

However it ends up calling driver's revalidate_disk without open
and could cause oops.

In the case of SCSI:

  process A                  process B
  ----------------------------------------------
  sys_open
    __blkdev_get
      sd_open
        returns -ENOMEDIUM
                             scsi_remove_device
                               &lt;scsi_device torn down&gt;
      rescan_partitions
        sd_revalidate_disk
          &lt;oops&gt;
Oopses are reported here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&amp;m=132388619710052

This patch separates the partition invalidation from rescan_partitions()
and use it for -ENOMEDIUM case.

Reported-by: Huajun Li &lt;huajun.li.lee@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&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 fe316bf2d5847bc5dd975668671a7b1067603bc7 upstream.

Since 2.6.39 (1196f8b), when a driver returns -ENOMEDIUM for open(),
__blkdev_get() calls rescan_partitions() to remove
in-kernel partition structures and raise KOBJ_CHANGE uevent.

However it ends up calling driver's revalidate_disk without open
and could cause oops.

In the case of SCSI:

  process A                  process B
  ----------------------------------------------
  sys_open
    __blkdev_get
      sd_open
        returns -ENOMEDIUM
                             scsi_remove_device
                               &lt;scsi_device torn down&gt;
      rescan_partitions
        sd_revalidate_disk
          &lt;oops&gt;
Oopses are reported here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&amp;m=132388619710052

This patch separates the partition invalidation from rescan_partitions()
and use it for -ENOMEDIUM case.

Reported-by: Huajun Li &lt;huajun.li.lee@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&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>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2011-11-05T00:22:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-05T00:22:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3d0a8d10cfb4cc3d1877c29a866ee7d8a46aa2fa'/>
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* 'for-3.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (30 commits)
  virtio-blk: use ida to allocate disk index
  hpsa: add small delay when using PCI Power Management to reset for kump
  cciss: add small delay when using PCI Power Management to reset for kump
  xen/blkback: Fix two races in the handling of barrier requests.
  xen/blkback: Check for proper operation.
  xen/blkback: Fix the inhibition to map pages when discarding sector ranges.
  xen/blkback: Report VBD_WSECT (wr_sect) properly.
  xen/blkback: Support 'feature-barrier' aka old-style BARRIER requests.
  xen-blkfront: plug device number leak in xlblk_init() error path
  xen-blkfront: If no barrier or flush is supported, use invalid operation.
  xen-blkback: use kzalloc() in favor of kmalloc()+memset()
  xen-blkback: fixed indentation and comments
  xen-blkfront: fix a deadlock while handling discard response
  xen-blkfront: Handle discard requests.
  xen-blkback: Implement discard requests ('feature-discard')
  xen-blkfront: add BLKIF_OP_DISCARD and discard request struct
  drivers/block/loop.c: remove unnecessary bdev argument from loop_clr_fd()
  drivers/block/loop.c: emit uevent on auto release
  drivers/block/cpqarray.c: use pci_dev-&gt;revision
  loop: always allow userspace partitions and optionally support automatic scanning
  ...

Fic up trivial header file includsion conflict in drivers/block/loop.c
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* 'for-3.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (30 commits)
  virtio-blk: use ida to allocate disk index
  hpsa: add small delay when using PCI Power Management to reset for kump
  cciss: add small delay when using PCI Power Management to reset for kump
  xen/blkback: Fix two races in the handling of barrier requests.
  xen/blkback: Check for proper operation.
  xen/blkback: Fix the inhibition to map pages when discarding sector ranges.
  xen/blkback: Report VBD_WSECT (wr_sect) properly.
  xen/blkback: Support 'feature-barrier' aka old-style BARRIER requests.
  xen-blkfront: plug device number leak in xlblk_init() error path
  xen-blkfront: If no barrier or flush is supported, use invalid operation.
  xen-blkback: use kzalloc() in favor of kmalloc()+memset()
  xen-blkback: fixed indentation and comments
  xen-blkfront: fix a deadlock while handling discard response
  xen-blkfront: Handle discard requests.
  xen-blkback: Implement discard requests ('feature-discard')
  xen-blkfront: add BLKIF_OP_DISCARD and discard request struct
  drivers/block/loop.c: remove unnecessary bdev argument from loop_clr_fd()
  drivers/block/loop.c: emit uevent on auto release
  drivers/block/cpqarray.c: use pci_dev-&gt;revision
  loop: always allow userspace partitions and optionally support automatic scanning
  ...

Fic up trivial header file includsion conflict in drivers/block/loop.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue</title>
<updated>2011-10-19T12:31:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-19T12:31:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=523e1d399ce0e23bec562abe2b2f8d297af81161'/>
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The following command sequence triggers an oops.

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
# echo 1 &gt; /sys/class/scsi_device/0\:0\:1\:0/device/delete
# umount /mnt

 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU 2
 Modules linked in:

 Pid: 791, comm: umount Not tainted 3.1.0-rc3-work+ #8 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810d0879&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810d0879&gt;] __lock_acquire+0x389/0x1d60
...
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff810d2845&gt;] lock_acquire+0x95/0x140
  [&lt;ffffffff81aed87b&gt;] _raw_spin_lock+0x3b/0x50
  [&lt;ffffffff811573bc&gt;] bdi_lock_two+0x5c/0x70
  [&lt;ffffffff811c2f6c&gt;] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x4c/0xf0
  [&lt;ffffffff811c3fcb&gt;] __blkdev_put+0x11b/0x1d0
  [&lt;ffffffff811c4010&gt;] __blkdev_put+0x160/0x1d0
  [&lt;ffffffff811c40df&gt;] blkdev_put+0x5f/0x190
  [&lt;ffffffff8118f18d&gt;] kill_block_super+0x4d/0x80
  [&lt;ffffffff8118f4a5&gt;] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x70
  [&lt;ffffffff8119003a&gt;] deactivate_super+0x4a/0x70
  [&lt;ffffffff811ac4ad&gt;] mntput_no_expire+0xed/0x130
  [&lt;ffffffff811acf2e&gt;] sys_umount+0x7e/0x3a0
  [&lt;ffffffff81aeeeab&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This is because bdev holds on to disk but disk doesn't pin the
associated queue.  If a SCSI device is removed while the device is
still open, the sdev puts the base reference to the queue on release.
When the bdev is finally released, the associated queue is already
gone along with the bdi and bdev_inode_switch_bdi() ends up
dereferencing already freed bdi.

Even if it were not for this bug, disk not holding onto the associated
queue is very unusual and error-prone.

Fix it by making add_disk() take an extra reference to its queue and
put it on disk_release() and ensuring that disk and its fops owner are
put in that order after all accesses to the disk and queue are
complete.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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The following command sequence triggers an oops.

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
# echo 1 &gt; /sys/class/scsi_device/0\:0\:1\:0/device/delete
# umount /mnt

 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU 2
 Modules linked in:

 Pid: 791, comm: umount Not tainted 3.1.0-rc3-work+ #8 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810d0879&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810d0879&gt;] __lock_acquire+0x389/0x1d60
...
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff810d2845&gt;] lock_acquire+0x95/0x140
  [&lt;ffffffff81aed87b&gt;] _raw_spin_lock+0x3b/0x50
  [&lt;ffffffff811573bc&gt;] bdi_lock_two+0x5c/0x70
  [&lt;ffffffff811c2f6c&gt;] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x4c/0xf0
  [&lt;ffffffff811c3fcb&gt;] __blkdev_put+0x11b/0x1d0
  [&lt;ffffffff811c4010&gt;] __blkdev_put+0x160/0x1d0
  [&lt;ffffffff811c40df&gt;] blkdev_put+0x5f/0x190
  [&lt;ffffffff8118f18d&gt;] kill_block_super+0x4d/0x80
  [&lt;ffffffff8118f4a5&gt;] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x70
  [&lt;ffffffff8119003a&gt;] deactivate_super+0x4a/0x70
  [&lt;ffffffff811ac4ad&gt;] mntput_no_expire+0xed/0x130
  [&lt;ffffffff811acf2e&gt;] sys_umount+0x7e/0x3a0
  [&lt;ffffffff81aeeeab&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This is because bdev holds on to disk but disk doesn't pin the
associated queue.  If a SCSI device is removed while the device is
still open, the sdev puts the base reference to the queue on release.
When the bdev is finally released, the associated queue is already
gone along with the bdi and bdev_inode_switch_bdi() ends up
dereferencing already freed bdi.

Even if it were not for this bug, disk not holding onto the associated
queue is very unusual and error-prone.

Fix it by making add_disk() take an extra reference to its queue and
put it on disk_release() and ensuring that disk and its fops owner are
put in that order after all accesses to the disk and queue are
complete.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Avoid dereferencing a 'request_queue' after last close.</title>
<updated>2011-09-10T07:20:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-10T07:20:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=94007751bb02797ba87bac7aacee2731ac2039a3'/>
<id>94007751bb02797ba87bac7aacee2731ac2039a3</id>
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On the last close of an 'md' device which as been stopped, the device
is destroyed and in particular the request_queue is freed.  The free
is done in a separate thread so it might happen a short time later.

__blkdev_put calls bdev_inode_switch_bdi *after* -&gt;release has been
called.

Since commit f758eeabeb96f878c860e8f110f94ec8820822a9
bdev_inode_switch_bdi will dereference the 'old' bdi, which lives
inside a request_queue, to get a spin lock.  This causes the last
close on an md device to sometime take a spin_lock which lives in
freed memory - which results in an oops.

So move the called to bdev_inode_switch_bdi before the call to
-&gt;release.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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On the last close of an 'md' device which as been stopped, the device
is destroyed and in particular the request_queue is freed.  The free
is done in a separate thread so it might happen a short time later.

__blkdev_put calls bdev_inode_switch_bdi *after* -&gt;release has been
called.

Since commit f758eeabeb96f878c860e8f110f94ec8820822a9
bdev_inode_switch_bdi will dereference the 'old' bdi, which lives
inside a request_queue, to get a spin lock.  This causes the last
close on an md device to sometime take a spin_lock which lives in
freed memory - which results in an oops.

So move the called to bdev_inode_switch_bdi before the call to
-&gt;release.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN</title>
<updated>2011-08-23T18:01:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-23T18:01:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d27769ec3df1a8de9ca450d2dcd72d1ab259ba32'/>
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There are cases where suppressing partition scan is useful - e.g. for
lo devices and pseudo SATA devices which advertise to be a disk but
get upset on partition scan (some port multiplier control devices show
such behavior).

This patch adds GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN which suppresses partition scan
regardless of the number of possible partitions.  disk_partitionable()
is renamed to disk_part_scan_enabled() as suppressing partition scan
doesn't imply the device can't be partitioned using
BLKPG_ADD/DEL_PARTITION calls from userland.  show_partition() now
directly tests disk_max_parts() to maintain backward-compatibility.

-v2: Updated to make it clear that only partition scan is suppressed
     not partitioning itself as suggested by Kay Sievers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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There are cases where suppressing partition scan is useful - e.g. for
lo devices and pseudo SATA devices which advertise to be a disk but
get upset on partition scan (some port multiplier control devices show
such behavior).

This patch adds GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN which suppresses partition scan
regardless of the number of possible partitions.  disk_partitionable()
is renamed to disk_part_scan_enabled() as suppressing partition scan
doesn't imply the device can't be partitioned using
BLKPG_ADD/DEL_PARTITION calls from userland.  show_partition() now
directly tests disk_max_parts() to maintain backward-compatibility.

-v2: Updated to make it clear that only partition scan is suppressed
     not partitioning itself as suggested by Kay Sievers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix block device fallout from -&gt;fsync() changes</title>
<updated>2011-08-02T01:33:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-02T00:17:48+00:00</published>
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blkdev_fsync() needs to write pages in pagecache...

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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blkdev_fsync() needs to write pages in pagecache...

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
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