linux.git/block/ioctl.c, branch v7.1-rc2

block: add a bio_submit_or_kill helper

2026-04-07T14:22:24+00:00

Factor the common logic for the ioctl helpers to either submit a bio or
end if the process is being killed.  As this is now the only user of
bio_await_chain, open code that.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407140538.633364-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: allow IOC_PR_READ_* ioctls with BLK_OPEN_READ

2026-02-11T17:36:54+00:00

The recently added IOC_PR_READ_* ioctls require the same BLK_OPEN_WRITE
permission as the older persistent reservation ioctls. This has the
drawback that udev triggers when the file descriptor is closed,
resulting in unnecessary activity like scanning partitions even though
these read-only ioctls do not modify the device.

Change IOC_PR_READ_KEYS and IOC_PR_READ_RESERVATION to require
BLK_OPEN_READ. This prevents unnecessary activity every time `blkpr
--read-keys` or `blkpr --read-reservation` is invoked by shell scripts,
for example.

It is safe to reduce the permission requirement from BLK_OPEN_WRITE to
BLK_OPEN_READ since these two ioctls do not modify the persistent
reservation state. Userspace cannot use the information fetched by these
ioctls to make changes to the device unless it later opens the device
with BLK_OPEN_WRITE.

Fixes: 3e2cb9ee76c2 ("block: add IOC_PR_READ_RESERVATION ioctl")
Fixes: 22a1ffea5f80 ("block: add IOC_PR_READ_KEYS ioctl")
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Martin Wilck 
Cc: Benjamin Marzinski 
Suggested-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: introduce bdev_rot()

2026-01-30T15:11:09+00:00

Introduce the helper function bdev_rot() to test if a block device is a
rotational one. The existing function bdev_nonrot() which tests for the
opposite condition is redefined using this new helper.
This avoids the double negation (operator and name) that appears when
testing if a block device is a rotational device, thus making the code a
little easier to read.

Call sites of bdev_nonrot() in the block layer are updated to use this
new helper.  Remaining users in other subsystems are left unchanged for
now.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add allocation size check in blkdev_pr_read_keys()

2025-12-17T14:35:22+00:00

blkdev_pr_read_keys() takes num_keys from userspace and uses it to
calculate the allocation size for keys_info via struct_size(). While
there is a check for SIZE_MAX (integer overflow), there is no upper
bound validation on the allocation size itself.

A malicious or buggy userspace can pass a large num_keys value that
doesn't trigger overflow but still results in an excessive allocation
attempt, causing a warning in the page allocator when the order exceeds
MAX_PAGE_ORDER.

Fix this by introducing PR_KEYS_MAX to limit the number of keys to
a sane value. This makes the SIZE_MAX check redundant, so remove it.
Also switch to kvzalloc/kvfree to handle larger allocations gracefully.

Fixes: 22a1ffea5f80 ("block: add IOC_PR_READ_KEYS ioctl")
Tested-by: syzbot+660d079d90f8a1baf54d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+660d079d90f8a1baf54d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=660d079d90f8a1baf54d
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251212013510.3576091-1-kartikey406@gmail.com/T/ [v1]
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey 
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add IOC_PR_READ_RESERVATION ioctl

2025-12-04T14:19:26+00:00

Add a Persistent Reservations ioctl to read the current reservation.
This calls the pr_ops->read_reservation() function that was previously
added in commit c787f1baa503 ("block: Add PR callouts for read keys and
reservation") but was only used by the in-kernel SCSI target so far.

The IOC_PR_READ_RESERVATION ioctl is necessary so that userspace
applications that rely on Persistent Reservations ioctls have a way of
inspecting the current state. Cluster managers and validation tests need
this functionality.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add IOC_PR_READ_KEYS ioctl

2025-12-04T14:19:26+00:00

Add a Persistent Reservations ioctl to read the list of currently
registered reservation keys. This calls the pr_ops->read_keys() function
that was previously added in commit c787f1baa503 ("block: Add PR
callouts for read keys and reservation") but was only used by the
in-kernel SCSI target so far.

The IOC_PR_READ_KEYS ioctl is necessary so that userspace applications
that rely on Persistent Reservations ioctls have a way of inspecting the
current state. Cluster managers and validation tests need this
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'for-6.19/block-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux

2025-12-04T03:26:18+00:00

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Fix head insertion for mq-deadline, a regression from when priority
   support was added

 - Series simplifying and improving the ublk user copy code

 - Various ublk related cleanups

 - Fixup REQ_NOWAIT handling in loop/zloop, clearing NOWAIT when the
   request is punted to a thread for handling

 - Merge and then later revert loop dio nowait support, as it ended up
   causing excessive stack usage for when the inline issue code needs to
   dip back into the full file system code

 - Improve auto integrity code, making it less deadlock prone

 - Speedup polled IO handling, but manually managing the hctx lookups

 - Fixes for blk-throttle for SSD devices

 - Small series with fixes for the S390 dasd driver

 - Add support for caching zones, avoiding unnecessary report zone
   queries

 - MD pull requests via Yu:
      - fix null-ptr-dereference regression for dm-raid0
      - fix IO hang for raid5 when array is broken with IO inflight
      - remove legacy 1s delay to speed up system shutdown
      - change maintainer's email address
      - data can be lost if array is created with different lbs devices,
        fix this problem and record lbs of the array in metadata
      - fix rcu protection for md_thread
      - fix mddev kobject lifetime regression
      - enable atomic writes for md-linear
      - some cleanups

 - bcache updates via Coly
      - remove useless discard and cache device code
      - improve usage of per-cpu workqueues

 - Reorganize the IO scheduler switching code, fixing some lockdep
   reports as well

 - Improve the block layer P2P DMA support

 - Add support to the block tracing code for zoned devices

 - Segment calculation improves, and memory alignment flexibility
   improvements

 - Set of prep and cleanups patches for ublk batching support. The
   actual batching hasn't been added yet, but helps shrink down the
   workload of getting that patchset ready for 6.20

 - Fix for how the ps3 block driver handles segments offsets

 - Improve how block plugging handles batch tag allocations

 - nbd fixes for use-after-free of the configuration on device clear/put

 - Set of improvements and fixes for zloop

 - Add Damien as maintainer of the block zoned device code handling

 - Various other fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.19/block-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (162 commits)
  block/rnbd: correct all kernel-doc complaints
  blk-mq: use queue_hctx in blk_mq_map_queue_type
  md: remove legacy 1s delay in md_notify_reboot
  md/raid5: fix IO hang when array is broken with IO inflight
  md: warn about updating super block failure
  md/raid0: fix NULL pointer dereference in create_strip_zones() for dm-raid
  sbitmap: fix all kernel-doc warnings
  ublk: add helper of __ublk_fetch()
  ublk: pass const pointer to ublk_queue_is_zoned()
  ublk: refactor auto buffer register in ublk_dispatch_req()
  ublk: add `union ublk_io_buf` with improved naming
  ublk: add parameter `struct io_uring_cmd *` to ublk_prep_auto_buf_reg()
  kfifo: add kfifo_alloc_node() helper for NUMA awareness
  blk-mq: fix potential uaf for 'queue_hw_ctx'
  blk-mq: use array manage hctx map instead of xarray
  ublk: prevent invalid access with DEBUG
  s390/dasd: Use scnprintf() instead of sprintf()
  s390/dasd: Move device name formatting into separate function
  s390/dasd: Remove unnecessary debugfs_create() return checks
  s390/dasd: Fix gendisk parent after copy pair swap
  ...

block: introduce BLKREPORTZONESV2 ioctl

2025-11-05T15:07:21+00:00

Introduce the new BLKREPORTZONESV2 ioctl command to allow user
applications access to the fast zone report implemented by
blkdev_report_zones_cached(). This new ioctl is defined as number 142
and is documented in include/uapi/linux/fs.h.

Unlike the existing BLKREPORTZONES ioctl, this new ioctl uses the flags
field of struct blk_zone_report also as an input. If the user sets the
BLK_ZONE_REP_CACHED flag as an input, then blkdev_report_zones_cached()
is used to generate the zone report using cached zone information. If
this flag is not set, then BLKREPORTZONESV2 behaves in the same manner
as BLKREPORTZONES and the zone report is generated by accessing the
zoned device.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni 
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

io_uring/uring_cmd: avoid double indirect call in task work dispatch

2025-11-03T15:31:26+00:00

io_uring task work dispatch makes an indirect call to struct io_kiocb's
io_task_work.func field to allow running arbitrary task work functions.
In the uring_cmd case, this calls io_uring_cmd_work(), which immediately
makes another indirect call to struct io_uring_cmd's task_work_cb field.
Change the uring_cmd task work callbacks to functions whose signatures
match io_req_tw_func_t. Add a function io_uring_cmd_from_tw() to convert
from the task work's struct io_tw_req argument to struct io_uring_cmd *.
Define a constant IO_URING_CMD_TASK_WORK_ISSUE_FLAGS to avoid
manufacturing issue_flags in the uring_cmd task work callbacks. Now
uring_cmd task work dispatch makes a single indirect call to the
uring_cmd implementation's callback. This also allows removing the
task_work_cb field from struct io_uring_cmd, freeing up 8 bytes for
future storage.
Since fuse_uring_send_in_task() now has access to the io_tw_token_t,
check its cancel field directly instead of relying on the
IO_URING_F_TASK_DEAD issue flag.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blktrace: handle BLKTRACESETUP2 ioctl

2025-10-22T17:14:06+00:00

Handle the BLKTRACESETUP2 ioctl, requesting an extended version of the
blktrace protocol from user-space.

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal 
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe