linux.git/fs/bio.c, branch v3.13

bio: fix argument of __bio_add_page() for max_sectors > 0xffff

2013-11-18T19:31:27+00:00

The data type of max_sectors and max_hw_sectors in queue settings are
unsigned int.  But these values are passed to __bio_add_page() as an
argument whose data type is unsigned short.  In the worst case such as
max_sectors is 0x10000, bio_add_page() can't add a page and IOs can't
proceed.

Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Consolidate duplicated bio_trim() implementations

2013-11-08T16:02:31+00:00

Someone cut and pasted md's md_trim_bio() into xen-blkfront.c. Come on,
we should know better than this.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Fix bio_copy_data()

2013-09-24T21:41:42+00:00

The memcpy() in bio_copy_data() was using the wrong offset vars, leading
to data corruption in weird unusual setups.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: linux-stable  # >= v3.9
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2013-09-04T01:25:03+00:00

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on the cgroup front.  Most changes aren't visible
  to userland at all at this point and are laying foundation for the
  planned unified hierarchy.

   - The biggest change is decoupling the lifetime management of css
     (cgroup_subsys_state) from that of cgroup's.  Because controllers
     (cpu, memory, block and so on) will need to be dynamically enabled
     and disabled, css which is the association point between a cgroup
     and a controller may come and go dynamically across the lifetime of
     a cgroup.  Till now, css's were created when the associated cgroup
     was created and stayed till the cgroup got destroyed.

     Assumptions around this tight coupling permeated through cgroup
     core and controllers.  These assumptions are gradually removed,
     which consists bulk of patches, and css destruction path is
     completely decoupled from cgroup destruction path.  Note that
     decoupling of creation path is relatively easy on top of these
     changes and the patchset is pending for the next window.

   - cgroup has its own event mechanism cgroup.event_control, which is
     only used by memcg.  It is overly complex trying to achieve high
     flexibility whose benefits seem dubious at best.  Going forward,
     new events will simply generate file modified event and the
     existing mechanism is being made specific to memcg.  This pull
     request contains prepatory patches for such change.

   - Various fixes and cleanups"

Fixed up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c as per Tejun.

* 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (69 commits)
  cgroup: fix cgroup_css() invocation in css_from_id()
  cgroup: make cgroup_write_event_control() use css_from_dir() instead of __d_cgrp()
  cgroup: make cgroup_event hold onto cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup
  cgroup: implement CFTYPE_NO_PREFIX
  cgroup: make cgroup_css() take cgroup_subsys * instead and allow NULL subsys
  cgroup: rename cgroup_css_from_dir() to css_from_dir() and update its syntax
  cgroup: fix cgroup_write_event_control()
  cgroup: fix subsystem file accesses on the root cgroup
  cgroup: change cgroup_from_id() to css_from_id()
  cgroup: use css_get() in cgroup_create() to check CSS_ROOT
  cpuset: remove an unncessary forward declaration
  cgroup: RCU protect each cgroup_subsys_state release
  cgroup: move subsys file removal to kill_css()
  cgroup: factor out kill_css()
  cgroup: decouple cgroup_subsys_state destruction from cgroup destruction
  cgroup: replace cgroup->css_kill_cnt with ->nr_css
  cgroup: bounce cgroup_subsys_state ref kill confirmation to a work item
  cgroup: move cgroup->subsys[] assignment to online_css()
  cgroup: reorganize css init / exit paths
  cgroup: add __rcu modifier to cgroup->subsys[]
  ...

[SCSI] sg: Fix user memory corruption when SG_IO is interrupted by a signal

2013-08-21T17:58:35+00:00

There is a nasty bug in the SCSI SG_IO ioctl that in some circumstances
leads to one process writing data into the address space of some other
random unrelated process if the ioctl is interrupted by a signal.
What happens is the following:

 - A process issues an SG_IO ioctl with direction DXFER_FROM_DEV (ie the
   underlying SCSI command will transfer data from the SCSI device to
   the buffer provided in the ioctl)

 - Before the command finishes, a signal is sent to the process waiting
   in the ioctl.  This will end up waking up the sg_ioctl() code:

		result = wait_event_interruptible(sfp->read_wait,
			(srp_done(sfp, srp) || sdp->detached));

   but neither srp_done() nor sdp->detached is true, so we end up just
   setting srp->orphan and returning to userspace:

		srp->orphan = 1;
		write_unlock_irq(&sfp->rq_list_lock);
		return result;	/* -ERESTARTSYS because signal hit process */

   At this point the original process is done with the ioctl and
   blithely goes ahead handling the signal, reissuing the ioctl, etc.

 - Eventually, the SCSI command issued by the first ioctl finishes and
   ends up in sg_rq_end_io().  At the end of that function, we run through:

	write_lock_irqsave(&sfp->rq_list_lock, iflags);
	if (unlikely(srp->orphan)) {
		if (sfp->keep_orphan)
			srp->sg_io_owned = 0;
		else
			done = 0;
	}
	srp->done = done;
	write_unlock_irqrestore(&sfp->rq_list_lock, iflags);

	if (likely(done)) {
		/* Now wake up any sg_read() that is waiting for this
		 * packet.
		 */
		wake_up_interruptible(&sfp->read_wait);
		kill_fasync(&sfp->async_qp, SIGPOLL, POLL_IN);
		kref_put(&sfp->f_ref, sg_remove_sfp);
	} else {
		INIT_WORK(&srp->ew.work, sg_rq_end_io_usercontext);
		schedule_work(&srp->ew.work);
	}

   Since srp->orphan *is* set, we set done to 0 (assuming the
   userspace app has not set keep_orphan via an SG_SET_KEEP_ORPHAN
   ioctl), and therefore we end up scheduling sg_rq_end_io_usercontext()
   to run in a workqueue.

 - In workqueue context we go through sg_rq_end_io_usercontext() ->
   sg_finish_rem_req() -> blk_rq_unmap_user() -> ... ->
   bio_uncopy_user() -> __bio_copy_iov() -> copy_to_user().

   The key point here is that we are doing copy_to_user() on a
   workqueue -- that is, we're on a kernel thread with current->mm
   equal to whatever random previous user process was scheduled before
   this kernel thread.  So we end up copying whatever data the SCSI
   command returned to the virtual address of the buffer passed into
   the original ioctl, but it's quite likely we do this copying into a
   different address space!

As suggested by James Bottomley ,
add a check for current->mm (which is NULL if we're on a kernel thread
without a real userspace address space) in bio_uncopy_user(), and skip
the copy if we're on a kernel thread.

There's no reason that I can think of for any caller of bio_uncopy_user()
to want to do copying on a kernel thread with a random active userspace
address space.

Huge thanks to Costa Sapuntzakis  for the
original pointer to this bug in the sg code.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier 
Tested-by: David Milburn 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

cgroup: s/cgroup_subsys_state/cgroup_css/ s/task_subsys_state/task_css/

2013-08-09T00:11:22+00:00

The names of the two struct cgroup_subsys_state accessors -
cgroup_subsys_state() and task_subsys_state() - are somewhat awkward.
The former clashes with the type name and the latter doesn't even
indicate it's somehow related to cgroup.

We're about to revamp large portion of cgroup API, so, let's rename
them so that they're less awkward.  Most per-controller usages of the
accessors are localized in accessor wrappers and given the amount of
scheduled changes, this isn't gonna add any noticeable headache.

Rename cgroup_subsys_state() to cgroup_css() and task_subsys_state()
to task_css().  This patch is pure rename.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Li Zefan

Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2013-05-08T17:13:35+00:00

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->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()
  ...

aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h

2013-05-08T03:16:25+00:00

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 
Cc: Zach Brown 
Cc: Felipe Balbi 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Asai Thambi S P 
Cc: Selvan Mani 
Cc: Sam Bradshaw 
Cc: Jeff Moyer 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise 
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint"

2013-04-18T16:00:26+00:00

This reverts commit 3a366e614d0837d9fc23f78cdb1a1186ebc3387f.

Wanlong Gao reports that it causes a kernel panic on his machine several
minutes after boot. Reverting it removes the panic.

Jens says:
 "It's not quite clear why that is yet, so I think we should just revert
  the commit for 3.9 final (which I'm assuming is pretty close).

  The wifi is crap at the LSF hotel, so sending this email instead of
  queueing up a revert and pull request."

Reported-by: Wanlong Gao 
Requested-by: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec

2013-03-23T21:26:33+00:00

This is for the new bio splitting code. When we split a bio, if the
split occured on a bvec boundry we reuse the bvec for the new bio. But
that means bio_free() can't free it, hence the explicit flag.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
CC: Jens Axboe 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo