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<title>floppy: cancel any pending fd_timeouts before adding a new one</title>
<updated>2012-07-03T22:51:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2012-07-03T22:51:22+00:00</published>
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In commit 070ad7e793dc ("floppy: convert to delayed work and
single-thread wq") the 'fd_timeout' timer was converted to a delayed
work.  However, the "del_timer(&amp;fd_timeout)" was lost in the process,
and any previous pending timeouts would stay active when we then
re-queued the timeout.

This resulted in the floppy probe sequence having a (stale) 20s timeout
rather than the intended 3s timeout, and thus made booting with the
floppy driver (but no actual floppy controller) take much longer than it
should.

Of course, there's little reason for most people to compile the floppy
driver into the kernel at all, which is why most people never noticed.

Canceling the delayed work where we used to do the del_timer() fixes the
issue, and makes the floppy probing use the proper new timeout instead.
The three second timeout is still very wasteful, but better than the 20s
one.

Reported-and-tested-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Calvin Walton &lt;calvin.walton@kepstin.ca&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In commit 070ad7e793dc ("floppy: convert to delayed work and
single-thread wq") the 'fd_timeout' timer was converted to a delayed
work.  However, the "del_timer(&amp;fd_timeout)" was lost in the process,
and any previous pending timeouts would stay active when we then
re-queued the timeout.

This resulted in the floppy probe sequence having a (stale) 20s timeout
rather than the intended 3s timeout, and thus made booting with the
floppy driver (but no actual floppy controller) take much longer than it
should.

Of course, there's little reason for most people to compile the floppy
driver into the kernel at all, which is why most people never noticed.

Canceling the delayed work where we used to do the del_timer() fixes the
issue, and makes the floppy probing use the proper new timeout instead.
The three second timeout is still very wasteful, but better than the 20s
one.

Reported-and-tested-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Calvin Walton &lt;calvin.walton@kepstin.ca&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-jens' of git://git.drbd.org/linux-drbd into for-linus</title>
<updated>2012-06-13T19:19:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-13T19:19:42+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge branch 'stable/for-jens-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen into for-linus</title>
<updated>2012-06-13T19:19:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
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<published>2012-06-13T19:19:06+00:00</published>
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<title>umem: fix up unplugging</title>
<updated>2012-06-13T19:17:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tao Guo</name>
<email>glorioustao@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2012-06-13T19:17:21+00:00</published>
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Fix a regression introduced by 7eaceaccab5f40 ("block: remove per-queue
plugging").  In that patch, Jens removed the whole mm_unplug_device()
function, which used to be the trigger to make umem start to work.

We need to implement unplugging to make umem start to work, or I/O will
never be triggered.

Signed-off-by: Tao Guo &lt;Tao.Guo@emc.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Fix a regression introduced by 7eaceaccab5f40 ("block: remove per-queue
plugging").  In that patch, Jens removed the whole mm_unplug_device()
function, which used to be the trigger to make umem start to work.

We need to implement unplugging to make umem start to work, or I/O will
never be triggered.

Signed-off-by: Tao Guo &lt;Tao.Guo@emc.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>drbd: fix null pointer dereference with on-congestion policy when diskless</title>
<updated>2012-06-12T12:35:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lars Ellenberg</name>
<email>lars.ellenberg@linbit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-08T12:17:36+00:00</published>
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We must not look at mdev-&gt;actlog, unless we have a get_ldev() reference.
It also does not make much sense to try to disconnect or pull-ahead of
the peer, if we don't have good local data.

Only even consider congestion policies, if our local disk is D_UP_TO_DATE.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&gt;
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We must not look at mdev-&gt;actlog, unless we have a get_ldev() reference.
It also does not make much sense to try to disconnect or pull-ahead of
the peer, if we don't have good local data.

Only even consider congestion policies, if our local disk is D_UP_TO_DATE.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drbd: fix list corruption by failing but already aborted reads</title>
<updated>2012-06-12T12:34:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lars Ellenberg</name>
<email>lars.ellenberg@linbit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-08T12:09:54+00:00</published>
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If a read is aborted due to force-detach of a supposedly unresponsive
local backing device, and retried on the peer, it can happen that the
local request later still completes (hopefully with an error).
As it may already have been completed to upper layers meanwhile,
it must not be retried again now.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&gt;
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If a read is aborted due to force-detach of a supposedly unresponsive
local backing device, and retried on the peer, it can happen that the
local request later still completes (hopefully with an error).
As it may already have been completed to upper layers meanwhile,
it must not be retried again now.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&gt;
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<title>drbd: fix access of unallocated pages and kernel panic</title>
<updated>2012-06-12T12:32:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lars Ellenberg</name>
<email>lars.ellenberg@linbit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-08T11:18:51+00:00</published>
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BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
...
 [&lt;d1e17561&gt;] ? _drbd_bm_set_bits+0x151/0x240 [drbd]
 [&lt;d1e236f8&gt;] ? receive_bitmap+0x4f8/0xbc0 [drbd]

This fixes an off-by-one error in the receive_bitmap() path,
if run-length encoded bitmap transfer is enabled.

If the bitmap is an exact multiple of PAGE_SIZE, which means the visible
capacity of the drbd device is an exact multiple of 128 MiB (for 4k page
size), and bitmap compression (use-rle) is enabled (which became default
with 8.4), and the very last bit is dirty and reported in an rle
comressed bitmap packet, we ended up trying to kmap_atomic a page pointer
that does not exist (bitmap-&gt;bm_pages[last index + 1]).

bug introduced by:
    Date:   Fri Jul 24 15:33:24 2009 +0200
    set bits: optimize for complete last word, fix off-by-one-word corner case

made effective by:
    Date:   Thu Dec 16 00:32:38 2010 +0100
    drbd: get rid of unused debug code

    Long time ago, we had paranoia code in the bitmap that allocated one
    extra word, assigned a magic value, and checked on every occasion that
    the magic value was still unchanged.

    That debug code is unused, the extra long word complicates code a bit.
    Get rid of it.

No-one triggered this bug in the last few years, because a large subset
of our userbase is unaffected:
 * typically the last few blocks of a device are not modified
   frequently, and remain unset
 * use-rle was disabled by default in drbd &lt; 8.4
 * those with slightly "odd" device sizes, or
 * drbd internal meta data (which will skew the device size slightly,
   thus makes it harder to have a bug relevant device size)

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&gt;
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BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
...
 [&lt;d1e17561&gt;] ? _drbd_bm_set_bits+0x151/0x240 [drbd]
 [&lt;d1e236f8&gt;] ? receive_bitmap+0x4f8/0xbc0 [drbd]

This fixes an off-by-one error in the receive_bitmap() path,
if run-length encoded bitmap transfer is enabled.

If the bitmap is an exact multiple of PAGE_SIZE, which means the visible
capacity of the drbd device is an exact multiple of 128 MiB (for 4k page
size), and bitmap compression (use-rle) is enabled (which became default
with 8.4), and the very last bit is dirty and reported in an rle
comressed bitmap packet, we ended up trying to kmap_atomic a page pointer
that does not exist (bitmap-&gt;bm_pages[last index + 1]).

bug introduced by:
    Date:   Fri Jul 24 15:33:24 2009 +0200
    set bits: optimize for complete last word, fix off-by-one-word corner case

made effective by:
    Date:   Thu Dec 16 00:32:38 2010 +0100
    drbd: get rid of unused debug code

    Long time ago, we had paranoia code in the bitmap that allocated one
    extra word, assigned a magic value, and checked on every occasion that
    the magic value was still unchanged.

    That debug code is unused, the extra long word complicates code a bit.
    Get rid of it.

No-one triggered this bug in the last few years, because a large subset
of our userbase is unaffected:
 * typically the last few blocks of a device are not modified
   frequently, and remain unset
 * use-rle was disabled by default in drbd &lt; 8.4
 * those with slightly "odd" device sizes, or
 * drbd internal meta data (which will skew the device size slightly,
   thus makes it harder to have a bug relevant device size)

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/blkfront: Add WARN to deal with misbehaving backends.</title>
<updated>2012-06-12T12:29:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-25T21:34:51+00:00</published>
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Part of the ring structure is the 'id' field which is under
control of the frontend. The frontend stamps it with "some"
value (this some in this implementation being a value less
than BLK_RING_SIZE), and when it gets a response expects
said value to be in the response structure. We have a check
for the id field when spolling new requests but not when
de-spolling responses.

We also add an extra check in add_id_to_freelist to make
sure that the 'struct request' was not NULL - as we cannot
pass a NULL to __blk_end_request_all, otherwise that crashes
(and all the operations that the response is dealing with
end up with __blk_end_request_all).

Lastly we also print the name of the operation that failed.

[v1: s/BUG/WARN/ suggested by Stefano]
[v2: Add extra check in add_id_to_freelist]
[v3: Redid op_name per Jan's suggestion]
[v4: add const * and add WARN on failure returns]
Acked-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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Part of the ring structure is the 'id' field which is under
control of the frontend. The frontend stamps it with "some"
value (this some in this implementation being a value less
than BLK_RING_SIZE), and when it gets a response expects
said value to be in the response structure. We have a check
for the id field when spolling new requests but not when
de-spolling responses.

We also add an extra check in add_id_to_freelist to make
sure that the 'struct request' was not NULL - as we cannot
pass a NULL to __blk_end_request_all, otherwise that crashes
(and all the operations that the response is dealing with
end up with __blk_end_request_all).

Lastly we also print the name of the operation that failed.

[v1: s/BUG/WARN/ suggested by Stefano]
[v2: Add extra check in add_id_to_freelist]
[v3: Redid op_name per Jan's suggestion]
[v4: add const * and add WARN on failure returns]
Acked-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mtip32xx: Create debugfs entries for troubleshooting</title>
<updated>2012-06-05T07:13:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Asai Thambi S P</name>
<email>asamymuthupa@micron.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-04T19:44:02+00:00</published>
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On module load, creates a debugfs parent 'rssd' in debugfs root. Then for each
device, create a new node with corresponding disk name. Under the new node, two
entries 'registers' and 'flags' are created.

NOTE: These entries were removed from sysfs in the previous patch

Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P &lt;asamymuthupa@micron.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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On module load, creates a debugfs parent 'rssd' in debugfs root. Then for each
device, create a new node with corresponding disk name. Under the new node, two
entries 'registers' and 'flags' are created.

NOTE: These entries were removed from sysfs in the previous patch

Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P &lt;asamymuthupa@micron.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>mtip32xx: Remove 'registers' and 'flags' from sysfs</title>
<updated>2012-06-05T07:13:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Asai Thambi S P</name>
<email>asamymuthupa@micron.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-04T19:43:03+00:00</published>
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This patch removes entries 'registers' and 'flags' from sysfs. Updated ABI file
to reflect this change.

Reported-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P &lt;asamymuthupa@micron.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This patch removes entries 'registers' and 'flags' from sysfs. Updated ABI file
to reflect this change.

Reported-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P &lt;asamymuthupa@micron.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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