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<title>dm integrity: fix integrity recalculation that is improperly skipped</title>
<updated>2020-07-23T18:39:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-23T14:42:09+00:00</published>
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Commit adc0daad366b62ca1bce3e2958a40b0b71a8b8b3 ("dm: report suspended
device during destroy") broke integrity recalculation.

The problem is dm_suspended() returns true not only during suspend,
but also during resume. So this race condition could occur:
1. dm_integrity_resume calls queue_work(ic-&gt;recalc_wq, &amp;ic-&gt;recalc_work)
2. integrity_recalc (&amp;ic-&gt;recalc_work) preempts the current thread
3. integrity_recalc calls if (unlikely(dm_suspended(ic-&gt;ti))) goto unlock_ret;
4. integrity_recalc exits and no recalculating is done.

To fix this race condition, add a function dm_post_suspending that is
only true during the postsuspend phase and use it instead of
dm_suspended().

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka redhat com&gt;
Fixes: adc0daad366b ("dm: report suspended device during destroy")
Cc: stable vger kernel org # v4.18+
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Commit adc0daad366b62ca1bce3e2958a40b0b71a8b8b3 ("dm: report suspended
device during destroy") broke integrity recalculation.

The problem is dm_suspended() returns true not only during suspend,
but also during resume. So this race condition could occur:
1. dm_integrity_resume calls queue_work(ic-&gt;recalc_wq, &amp;ic-&gt;recalc_work)
2. integrity_recalc (&amp;ic-&gt;recalc_work) preempts the current thread
3. integrity_recalc calls if (unlikely(dm_suspended(ic-&gt;ti))) goto unlock_ret;
4. integrity_recalc exits and no recalculating is done.

To fix this race condition, add a function dm_post_suspending that is
only true during the postsuspend phase and use it instead of
dm_suspended().

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka redhat com&gt;
Fixes: adc0daad366b ("dm: report suspended device during destroy")
Cc: stable vger kernel org # v4.18+
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: use noio when sending kobject event</title>
<updated>2020-07-08T16:50:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-08T16:25:20+00:00</published>
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kobject_uevent may allocate memory and it may be called while there are dm
devices suspended. The allocation may recurse into a suspended device,
causing a deadlock. We must set the noio flag when sending a uevent.

The observed deadlock was reported here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2020-March/msg00025.html

Reported-by: Khazhismel Kumykov &lt;khazhy@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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kobject_uevent may allocate memory and it may be called while there are dm
devices suspended. The allocation may recurse into a suspended device,
causing a deadlock. We must set the noio flag when sending a uevent.

The observed deadlock was reported here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2020-March/msg00025.html

Reported-by: Khazhismel Kumykov &lt;khazhy@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: use bio_uninit instead of bio_disassociate_blkg</title>
<updated>2020-07-08T15:02:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-27T07:31:46+00:00</published>
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bio_uninit is the proper API to clean up a BIO that has been allocated
on stack or inside a structure that doesn't come from the BIO allocator.
Switch dm to use that instead of bio_disassociate_blkg, which really is
an implementation detail.  Note that the bio_uninit calls are also moved
to the two callers of __send_empty_flush, so that they better pair with
the bio_init calls used to initialize them.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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bio_uninit is the proper API to clean up a BIO that has been allocated
on stack or inside a structure that doesn't come from the BIO allocator.
Switch dm to use that instead of bio_disassociate_blkg, which really is
an implementation detail.  Note that the bio_uninit calls are also moved
to the two callers of __send_empty_flush, so that they better pair with
the bio_init calls used to initialize them.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: do not use waitqueue for request-based DM</title>
<updated>2020-07-07T16:00:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-24T20:00:58+00:00</published>
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Given request-based DM now uses blk-mq's blk_mq_queue_inflight() to
determine if outstanding IO has completed (and DM has no control over
the blk-mq state machine used to track outstanding IO) it is unsafe to
wakeup waiter (dm_wait_for_completion) before blk-mq has cleared a
request's state bits (e.g. MQ_RQ_IN_FLIGHT or MQ_RQ_COMPLETE).  As
such dm_wait_for_completion() could be left to wait indefinitely if no
other requests complete.

Fix this by eliminating request-based DM's use of waitqueue to wait
for blk-mq requests to complete in dm_wait_for_completion.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Depends-on: 3c94d83cb3526 ("blk-mq: change blk_mq_queue_busy() to blk_mq_queue_inflight()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Given request-based DM now uses blk-mq's blk_mq_queue_inflight() to
determine if outstanding IO has completed (and DM has no control over
the blk-mq state machine used to track outstanding IO) it is unsafe to
wakeup waiter (dm_wait_for_completion) before blk-mq has cleared a
request's state bits (e.g. MQ_RQ_IN_FLIGHT or MQ_RQ_COMPLETE).  As
such dm_wait_for_completion() could be left to wait indefinitely if no
other requests complete.

Fix this by eliminating request-based DM's use of waitqueue to wait
for blk-mq requests to complete in dm_wait_for_completion.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Depends-on: 3c94d83cb3526 ("blk-mq: change blk_mq_queue_busy() to blk_mq_queue_inflight()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: update original bio sector on Zone Append</title>
<updated>2020-06-19T16:25:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Thumshirn</name>
<email>johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-19T06:59:04+00:00</published>
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Naohiro reported that issuing zone-append bios to a zoned block device
underneath a dm-linear device does not work as expected.

This because we forgot to reverse-map the sector the device wrote to the
original bio.

For zone-append bios, get the offset in the zone of the written sector
from the clone bio and add that to the original bio's sector position.

Fixes: 0512a75b98f8 ("block: Introduce REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Naohiro Aota &lt;Naohiro.Aota@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Naohiro reported that issuing zone-append bios to a zoned block device
underneath a dm-linear device does not work as expected.

This because we forgot to reverse-map the sector the device wrote to the
original bio.

For zone-append bios, get the offset in the zone of the written sector
from the clone bio and add that to the original bio's sector position.

Fixes: 0512a75b98f8 ("block: Introduce REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Naohiro Aota &lt;Naohiro.Aota@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-5.8/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2020-06-05T22:45:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-05T22:45:03+00:00</published>
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - The largest change for this cycle is the DM zoned target's metadata
   version 2 feature that adds support for pairing regular block devices
   with a zoned device to ease the performance impact associated with
   finite random zones of zoned device.

   The changes came in three batches: the first prepared for and then
   added the ability to pair a single regular block device, the second
   was a batch of fixes to improve zoned's reclaim heuristic, and the
   third removed the limitation of only adding a single additional
   regular block device to allow many devices.

   Testing has shown linear scaling as more devices are added.

 - Add new emulated block size (ebs) target that emulates a smaller
   logical_block_size than a block device supports

   The primary use-case is to emulate "512e" devices that have 512 byte
   logical_block_size and 4KB physical_block_size. This is useful to
   some legacy applications that otherwise wouldn't be able to be used
   on 4K devices because they depend on issuing IO in 512 byte
   granularity.

 - Add discard interfaces to DM bufio. First consumer of the interface
   is the dm-ebs target that makes heavy use of dm-bufio.

 - Fix DM crypt's block queue_limits stacking to not truncate
   logic_block_size.

 - Add Documentation for DM integrity's status line.

 - Switch DMDEBUG from a compile time config option to instead use
   dynamic debug via pr_debug.

 - Fix DM multipath target's hueristic for how it manages
   "queue_if_no_path" state internally.

   DM multipath now avoids disabling "queue_if_no_path" unless it is
   actually needed (e.g. in response to configure timeout or explicit
   "fail_if_no_path" message).

   This fixes reports of spurious -EIO being reported back to userspace
   application during fault tolerance testing with an NVMe backend.
   Added various dynamic DMDEBUG messages to assist with debugging
   queue_if_no_path in the future.

 - Add a new DM multipath "Historical Service Time" Path Selector.

 - Fix DM multipath's dm_blk_ioctl() to switch paths on IO error.

 - Improve DM writecache target performance by using explicit cache
   flushing for target's single-threaded usecase and a small cleanup to
   remove unnecessary test in persistent_memory_claim.

 - Other small cleanups in DM core, dm-persistent-data, and DM
   integrity.

* tag 'for-5.8/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (62 commits)
  dm crypt: avoid truncating the logical block size
  dm mpath: add DM device name to Failing/Reinstating path log messages
  dm mpath: enhance queue_if_no_path debugging
  dm mpath: restrict queue_if_no_path state machine
  dm mpath: simplify __must_push_back
  dm zoned: check superblock location
  dm zoned: prefer full zones for reclaim
  dm zoned: select reclaim zone based on device index
  dm zoned: allocate zone by device index
  dm zoned: support arbitrary number of devices
  dm zoned: move random and sequential zones into struct dmz_dev
  dm zoned: per-device reclaim
  dm zoned: add metadata pointer to struct dmz_dev
  dm zoned: add device pointer to struct dm_zone
  dm zoned: allocate temporary superblock for tertiary devices
  dm zoned: convert to xarray
  dm zoned: add a 'reserved' zone flag
  dm zoned: improve logging messages for reclaim
  dm zoned: avoid unnecessary device recalulation for secondary superblock
  dm zoned: add debugging message for reading superblocks
  ...
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - The largest change for this cycle is the DM zoned target's metadata
   version 2 feature that adds support for pairing regular block devices
   with a zoned device to ease the performance impact associated with
   finite random zones of zoned device.

   The changes came in three batches: the first prepared for and then
   added the ability to pair a single regular block device, the second
   was a batch of fixes to improve zoned's reclaim heuristic, and the
   third removed the limitation of only adding a single additional
   regular block device to allow many devices.

   Testing has shown linear scaling as more devices are added.

 - Add new emulated block size (ebs) target that emulates a smaller
   logical_block_size than a block device supports

   The primary use-case is to emulate "512e" devices that have 512 byte
   logical_block_size and 4KB physical_block_size. This is useful to
   some legacy applications that otherwise wouldn't be able to be used
   on 4K devices because they depend on issuing IO in 512 byte
   granularity.

 - Add discard interfaces to DM bufio. First consumer of the interface
   is the dm-ebs target that makes heavy use of dm-bufio.

 - Fix DM crypt's block queue_limits stacking to not truncate
   logic_block_size.

 - Add Documentation for DM integrity's status line.

 - Switch DMDEBUG from a compile time config option to instead use
   dynamic debug via pr_debug.

 - Fix DM multipath target's hueristic for how it manages
   "queue_if_no_path" state internally.

   DM multipath now avoids disabling "queue_if_no_path" unless it is
   actually needed (e.g. in response to configure timeout or explicit
   "fail_if_no_path" message).

   This fixes reports of spurious -EIO being reported back to userspace
   application during fault tolerance testing with an NVMe backend.
   Added various dynamic DMDEBUG messages to assist with debugging
   queue_if_no_path in the future.

 - Add a new DM multipath "Historical Service Time" Path Selector.

 - Fix DM multipath's dm_blk_ioctl() to switch paths on IO error.

 - Improve DM writecache target performance by using explicit cache
   flushing for target's single-threaded usecase and a small cleanup to
   remove unnecessary test in persistent_memory_claim.

 - Other small cleanups in DM core, dm-persistent-data, and DM
   integrity.

* tag 'for-5.8/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (62 commits)
  dm crypt: avoid truncating the logical block size
  dm mpath: add DM device name to Failing/Reinstating path log messages
  dm mpath: enhance queue_if_no_path debugging
  dm mpath: restrict queue_if_no_path state machine
  dm mpath: simplify __must_push_back
  dm zoned: check superblock location
  dm zoned: prefer full zones for reclaim
  dm zoned: select reclaim zone based on device index
  dm zoned: allocate zone by device index
  dm zoned: support arbitrary number of devices
  dm zoned: move random and sequential zones into struct dmz_dev
  dm zoned: per-device reclaim
  dm zoned: add metadata pointer to struct dmz_dev
  dm zoned: add device pointer to struct dm_zone
  dm zoned: allocate temporary superblock for tertiary devices
  dm zoned: convert to xarray
  dm zoned: add a 'reserved' zone flag
  dm zoned: improve logging messages for reclaim
  dm zoned: avoid unnecessary device recalulation for secondary superblock
  dm zoned: add debugging message for reading superblocks
  ...
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<entry>
<title>dm: use bio_{start,end}_io_acct</title>
<updated>2020-05-27T11:21:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-27T05:24:09+00:00</published>
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Switch dm to use the nicer bio accounting helpers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Switch dm to use the nicer bio accounting helpers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: use DMDEBUG macros now that they use pr_debug variants</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T21:09:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-14T16:55:39+00:00</published>
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Now that DMDEBUG uses pr_debug and DMDEBUG_LIMIT uses
pr_debug_ratelimited cleanup DM's 2 direct pr_debug callers to use
them to get the benefit of consistent DM_FMT formatting of debugging
messages.

While doing so, dm-mpath.c:dm_report_EIO() was switched over to using
DMDEBUG_LIMIT due to the potential for error handling floods in the IO
completion path.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Now that DMDEBUG uses pr_debug and DMDEBUG_LIMIT uses
pr_debug_ratelimited cleanup DM's 2 direct pr_debug callers to use
them to get the benefit of consistent DM_FMT formatting of debugging
messages.

While doing so, dm-mpath.c:dm_report_EIO() was switched over to using
DMDEBUG_LIMIT due to the potential for error handling floods in the IO
completion path.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-mq: allow blk_mq_make_request to consume the q_usage_counter reference</title>
<updated>2020-05-19T15:34:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-16T18:28:01+00:00</published>
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blk_mq_make_request currently needs to grab an q_usage_counter
reference when allocating a request.  This is because the block layer
grabs one before calling blk_mq_make_request, but also releases it as
soon as blk_mq_make_request returns.  Remove the blk_queue_exit call
after blk_mq_make_request returns, and instead let it consume the
reference.  This works perfectly fine for the block layer caller, just
device mapper needs an extra reference as the old problem still
persists there.  Open code blk_queue_enter_live in device mapper,
as there should be no other callers and this allows better documenting
why we do a non-try get.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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blk_mq_make_request currently needs to grab an q_usage_counter
reference when allocating a request.  This is because the block layer
grabs one before calling blk_mq_make_request, but also releases it as
soon as blk_mq_make_request returns.  Remove the blk_queue_exit call
after blk_mq_make_request returns, and instead let it consume the
reference.  This works perfectly fine for the block layer caller, just
device mapper needs an extra reference as the old problem still
persists there.  Open code blk_queue_enter_live in device mapper,
as there should be no other callers and this allows better documenting
why we do a non-try get.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm mpath: pass IO start time to path selector</title>
<updated>2020-05-15T14:29:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriel Krisman Bertazi</name>
<email>krisman@collabora.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-30T20:48:29+00:00</published>
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The HST path selector needs this information to perform path
prediction. For request-based mpath, struct request's io_start_time_ns
is used, while for bio-based, use the start_time stored in dm_io.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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The HST path selector needs this information to perform path
prediction. For request-based mpath, struct request's io_start_time_ns
is used, while for bio-based, use the start_time stored in dm_io.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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