Pull writeback fix from Wu Fengguang:
"A trivial writeback fix"
* tag 'writeback-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
writeback: Do not sort b_io list only because of block device inode
Pull aio changes from Ben LaHaise:
"First off, sorry for this pull request being late in the merge window.
Al had raised a couple of concerns about 2 items in the series below.
I addressed the first issue (the race introduced by Gu's use of
mm_populate()), but he has not provided any further details on how he
wants to rework the anon_inode.c changes (which were sent out months
ago but have yet to be commented on).
The bulk of the changes have been sitting in the -next tree for a few
months, with all the issues raised being addressed"
* git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-next: (22 commits)
aio: rcu_read_lock protection for new rcu_dereference calls
aio: fix race in ring buffer page lookup introduced by page migration support
aio: fix rcu sparse warnings introduced by ioctx table lookup patch
aio: remove unnecessary debugging from aio_free_ring()
aio: table lookup: verify ctx pointer
staging/lustre: kiocb->ki_left is removed
aio: fix error handling and rcu usage in "convert the ioctx list to table lookup v3"
aio: be defensive to ensure request batching is non-zero instead of BUG_ON()
aio: convert the ioctx list to table lookup v3
aio: double aio_max_nr in calculations
aio: Kill ki_dtor
aio: Kill ki_users
aio: Kill unneeded kiocb members
aio: Kill aio_rw_vect_retry()
aio: Don't use ctx->tail unnecessarily
aio: io_cancel() no longer returns the io_event
aio: percpu ioctx refcount
aio: percpu reqs_available
aio: reqs_active -> reqs_available
aio: fix build when migration is disabled
...
Call generic_write_sync() from the deferred I/O completion handler if
O_DSYNC is set for a write request. Also make sure various callers
don't call generic_write_sync if the direct I/O code returns
-EIOCBQUEUED.
Based on an earlier patch from Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> with updates from
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> and Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull core block IO updates from Jens Axboe:
"Here are the core IO block bits for 3.11. It contains:
- A tweak to the reserved tag logic from Jan, for weirdo devices with
just 3 free tags. But for those it improves things substantially
for random writes.
- Periodic writeback fix from Jan. Marked for stable as well.
- Fix for a race condition in IO scheduler switching from Jianpeng.
- The hierarchical blk-cgroup support from Tejun. This is the grunt
of the series.
- blk-throttle fix from Vivek.
Just a note that I'm in the middle of a relocation, whole family is
flying out tomorrow. Hence I will be awal the remainder of this week,
but back at work again on Monday the 15th. CC'ing Tejun, since any
potential "surprises" will most likely be from the blk-cgroup work.
But it's been brewing for a while and sitting in my tree and
linux-next for a long time, so should be solid."
* 'for-3.11/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (36 commits)
elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching
block: Reserve only one queue tag for sync IO if only 3 tags are available
writeback: Fix periodic writeback after fs mount
blk-throttle: implement proper hierarchy support
blk-throttle: implement throtl_grp->has_rules[]
blk-throttle: Account for child group's start time in parent while bio climbs up
blk-throttle: add throtl_qnode for dispatch fairness
blk-throttle: make throtl_pending_timer_fn() ready for hierarchy
blk-throttle: make tg_dispatch_one_bio() ready for hierarchy
blk-throttle: make blk_throtl_bio() ready for hierarchy
blk-throttle: make blk_throtl_drain() ready for hierarchy
blk-throttle: dispatch from throtl_pending_timer_fn()
blk-throttle: implement dispatch looping
blk-throttle: separate out throtl_service_queue->pending_timer from throtl_data->dispatch_work
blk-throttle: set REQ_THROTTLED from throtl_charge_bio() and gate stats update with it
blk-throttle: implement sq_to_tg(), sq_to_td() and throtl_log()
blk-throttle: add throtl_service_queue->parent_sq
blk-throttle: generalize update_disptime optimization in blk_throtl_bio()
blk-throttle: dispatch to throtl_data->service_queue.bio_lists[]
blk-throttle: move bio_lists[] and friends to throtl_service_queue
...
It is very likely that block device inode will be part of BDI dirty list
as well. However it doesn't make sence to sort inodes on the b_io list
just because of this inode (as it contains buffers all over the device
anyway). So save some CPU cycles which is valuable since we hold relatively
contented wb->list_lock.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
begin writing back pages. This fails to account for buffer pages that
can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
filesystems like ext3 ordered mode. Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
be accounted as congested.
This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
writeback. An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode. By default the
page flags are obeyed.
Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
problem could be addressed.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Code in blkdev.c moves a device inode to default_backing_dev_info when
the last reference to the device is put and moves the device inode back
to its bdi when the first reference is acquired. This includes moving to
wb.b_dirty list if the device inode is dirty. The code however doesn't
setup timer to wake corresponding flusher thread and while wb.b_dirty
list is non-empty __mark_inode_dirty() will not set it up either. Thus
periodic writeback is effectively disabled until a sync(2) call which can
lead to unexpected data loss in case of crash or power failure.
Fix the problem by setting up a timer for periodic writeback in case we
add the first dirty inode to wb.b_dirty list in bdev_inode_switch_bdi().
Reported-by: Bert De Jonghe <Bert.DeJonghe@amplidata.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 3.0
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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()
...
Merge more incoming from Andrew Morton:
- Various fixes which were stalled or which I picked up recently
- A large rotorooting of the AIO code. Allegedly to improve
performance but I don't really have good performance numbers (I might
have lost the email) and I can't raise Kent today. I held this out
of 3.9 and we could give it another cycle if it's all too late/scary.
I ended up taking only the first two thirds of the AIO rotorooting. I
left the percpu parts and the batch completion for later. - Linus
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (33 commits)
aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h
aio: kill ki_retry
aio: kill ki_key
aio: give shared kioctx fields their own cachelines
aio: kill struct aio_ring_info
aio: kill batch allocation
aio: change reqs_active to include unreaped completions
aio: use cancellation list lazily
aio: use flush_dcache_page()
aio: make aio_read_evt() more efficient, convert to hrtimers
wait: add wait_event_hrtimeout()
aio: refcounting cleanup
aio: make aio_put_req() lockless
aio: do fget() after aio_get_req()
aio: dprintk() -> pr_debug()
aio: move private stuff out of aio.h
aio: add kiocb_cancel()
aio: kill return value of aio_complete()
char: add aio_{read,write} to /dev/{null,zero}
aio: remove retry-based AIO
...
same story as with the previous patches - note that return
value of blkdev_close() is lost, since there's nowhere the
caller (__fput()) could return it to.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The value passed is 0 in all but "it can never happen" cases (and those
only in a couple of drivers) *and* it would've been lost on the way
out anyway, even if something tried to pass something meaningful.
Just don't bother.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
blkdev_aio_read() test 'size' to see if it is equal or greater than the
target count we request(iocb->ki_left). If so there is no need to call
iov_shorten() to reduce number of segments and the iovec's length. So the
judgement should be changed to 'if (size < iocb->ki_left)' instead.
Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
struct block_device lifecycle is defined by its inode (see fs/block_dev.c) -
block_device allocated first time we access /dev/loopXX and deallocated on
bdev_destroy_inode. When we create the device "losetup /dev/loopXX afile"
we want that block_device stay alive until we destroy the loop device
with "losetup -d".
But because we do not hold /dev/loopXX inode its counter goes 0, and
inode/bdev can be destroyed at any moment. Usually it happens at memory
pressure or when user drops inode cache (like in the test below). When later in
loop_clr_fd() we want to use bdev we have use-after-free error with following
stack:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000280
bd_set_size+0x10/0xa0
loop_clr_fd+0x1f8/0x420 [loop]
lo_ioctl+0x200/0x7e0 [loop]
lo_compat_ioctl+0x47/0xe0 [loop]
compat_blkdev_ioctl+0x341/0x1290
do_filp_open+0x42/0xa0
compat_sys_ioctl+0xc1/0xf20
do_sys_open+0x16e/0x1d0
sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x1a
To prevent use-after-free we need to grab the device in loop_set_fd()
and put it later in loop_clr_fd().
The issue is reprodusible on current Linus head and v3.3. Here is the test:
dd if=/dev/zero of=loop.file bs=1M count=1
while [ true ]; do
losetup /dev/loop0 loop.file
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
losetup -d /dev/loop0
done
[ Doing bdgrab/bput in loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd is safe, because every
time we call loop_set_fd() we check that loop_device->lo_state is
Lo_unbound and set it to Lo_bound If somebody will try to set_fd again
it will get EBUSY. And if we try to loop_clr_fd() on unbound loop
device we'll get ENXIO.
loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd (and any other loop ioctl) is called under
loop_device->lo_ctl_mutex. ]
Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull block IO core bits from Jens Axboe:
"Below are the core block IO bits for 3.9. It was delayed a few days
since my workstation kept crashing every 2-8h after pulling it into
current -git, but turns out it is a bug in the new pstate code (divide
by zero, will report separately). In any case, it contains:
- The big cfq/blkcg update from Tejun and and Vivek.
- Additional block and writeback tracepoints from Tejun.
- Improvement of the should sort (based on queues) logic in the plug
flushing.
- _io() variants of the wait_for_completion() interface, using
io_schedule() instead of schedule() to contribute to io wait
properly.
- Various little fixes.
You'll get two trivial merge conflicts, which should be easy enough to
fix up"
Fix up the trivial conflicts due to hlist traversal cleanups (commit
b67bfe0d42: "hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators").
* 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (39 commits)
block: remove redundant check to bd_openers()
block: use i_size_write() in bd_set_size()
cfq: fix lock imbalance with failed allocations
drivers/block/swim3.c: fix null pointer dereference
block: don't select PERCPU_RWSEM
block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request
sched: add wait_for_completion_io[_timeout]
writeback: add more tracepoints
block: add block_{touch|dirty}_buffer tracepoint
buffer: make touch_buffer() an exported function
block: add @req to bio_{front|back}_merge tracepoints
block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint
block: Remove should_sort judgement when flush blk_plug
block,elevator: use new hashtable implementation
cfq-iosched: add hierarchical cfq_group statistics
cfq-iosched: collect stats from dead cfqgs
cfq-iosched: separate out cfqg_stats_reset() from cfq_pd_reset_stats()
blkcg: make blkcg_print_blkgs() grab q locks instead of blkcg lock
block: RCU free request_queue
blkcg: implement blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() and blkg_[rw]stat_merge()
...
Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
"Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
locking violations, etc.
The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
"has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
to inode. Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.
Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.
PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
kill f_vfsmnt
vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
...
We found that bdev->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 <herumi@nifty.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The direct-IO write path already had the i_size checks in mm/filemap.c,
but it turns out the read path did not, and removing the block size
checks in fs/block_dev.c (commit bbec0270bd: "blkdev_max_block: make
private to fs/buffer.c") removed the magic "shrink IO to past the end of
the device" code there.
Fix it by truncating the IO to the size of the block device, like the
write path already does.
NOTE! I suspect the write path would be *much* better off doing it this
way in fs/block_dev.c, rather than hidden deep in mm/filemap.c. The
mm/filemap.c code is extremely hard to follow, and has various
conditionals on the target being a block device (ie the flag passed in
to 'generic_write_checks()', along with a conditional update of the
inode timestamp etc).
It is also quite possible that we should treat this whole block device
size as a "s_maxbytes" issue, and try to make the logic even more
generic. However, in the meantime this is the fairly minimal targeted
fix.
Noted by Milan Broz thanks to a regression test for the cryptsetup
reencrypt tool.
Reported-and-tested-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
