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Mikulas Patocka
1a25b1c4ce Lock splice_read and splice_write functions
Functions generic_file_splice_read and generic_file_splice_write access
the pagecache directly. For block devices these functions must be locked
so that block size is not changed while they are in progress.

This patch is an additional fix for commit b87570f5d3 ("Fix a crash
when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time")
that locked aio_read, aio_write and mmap against block size change.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-28 10:59:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ce40be7a82 Merge branch 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block IO update from Jens Axboe:
 "Core block IO bits for 3.7.  Not a huge round this time, it contains:

   - First series from Kent cleaning up and generalizing bio allocation
     and freeing.

   - WRITE_SAME support from Martin.

   - Mikulas patches to prevent O_DIRECT crashes when someone changes
     the block size of a device.

   - Make bio_split() work on data-less bio's (like trim/discards).

   - A few other minor fixups."

Fixed up silent semantic mis-merge as per Mikulas Patocka and Andrew
Morton.  It is due to the VM no longer using a prio-tree (see commit
6b2dbba8b6: "mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree").

So make set_blocksize() use mapping_mapped() instead of open-coding the
internal VM knowledge that has changed.

* 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
  block: makes bio_split support bio without data
  scatterlist: refactor the sg_nents
  scatterlist: add sg_nents
  fs: fix include/percpu-rwsem.h export error
  percpu-rw-semaphore: fix documentation typos
  fs/block_dev.c:1644:5: sparse: symbol 'blkdev_mmap' was not declared
  blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore
  Fix a crash when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time
  block: fix request_queue->flags initialization
  block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of blk_init_allocated_queue()
  block: ioctl to zero block ranges
  block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME
  block: Implement support for WRITE SAME
  block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges
  block: Clean up special command handling logic
  block/blk-tag.c: Remove useless kfree
  block: remove the duplicated setting for congestion_threshold
  block: reject invalid queue attribute values
  block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()
  block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc()
  ...
2012-10-11 09:04:23 +09:00
Fengguang Wu
3eab7315c8 fs/block_dev.c:1644:5: sparse: symbol 'blkdev_mmap' was not declared
blkdev_mmap() isn't used outside of fs/block_dev.c, mark it as
static.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-26 09:57:55 +02:00
Mikulas Patocka
62ac665ff9 blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore
This avoids cache line bouncing when many processes lock the semaphore
for read.

New percpu lock implementation

The lock consists of an array of percpu unsigned integers, a boolean
variable and a mutex.

When we take the lock for read, we enter rcu read section, check for a
"locked" variable. If it is false, we increase a percpu counter on the
current cpu and exit the rcu section. If "locked" is true, we exit the
rcu section, take the mutex and drop it (this waits until a writer
finished) and retry.

Unlocking for read just decreases percpu variable. Note that we can
unlock on a difference cpu than where we locked, in this case the
counter underflows. The sum of all percpu counters represents the number
of processes that hold the lock for read.

When we need to lock for write, we take the mutex, set "locked" variable
to true and synchronize rcu. Since RCU has been synchronized, no
processes can create new read locks. We wait until the sum of percpu
counters is zero - when it is, there are no readers in the critical
section.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-26 07:46:43 +02:00
Mikulas Patocka
b87570f5d3 Fix a crash when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time
The kernel may crash when block size is changed and I/O is issued
simultaneously.

Because some subsystems (udev or lvm) may read any block device anytime,
the bug actually puts any code that changes a block device size in
jeopardy.

The crash can be reproduced if you place "msleep(1000)" to
blkdev_get_blocks just before "bh->b_size = max_blocks <<
inode->i_blkbits;".
Then, run "dd if=/dev/ram0 of=/dev/null bs=4k count=1 iflag=direct"
While it is waiting in msleep, run "blockdev --setbsz 2048 /dev/ram0"
You get a BUG.

The direct and non-direct I/O is written with the assumption that block
size does not change. It doesn't seem practical to fix these crashes
one-by-one there may be many crash possibilities when block size changes
at a certain place and it is impossible to find them all and verify the
code.

This patch introduces a new rw-lock bd_block_size_semaphore. The lock is
taken for read during I/O. It is taken for write when changing block
size. Consequently, block size can't be changed while I/O is being
submitted.

For asynchronous I/O, the patch only prevents block size change while
the I/O is being submitted. The block size can change when the I/O is in
progress or when the I/O is being finished. This is acceptable because
there are no accesses to block size when asynchronous I/O is being
finished.

The patch prevents block size changing while the device is mapped with
mmap.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-26 07:46:40 +02:00
Jianpeng Ma
53362a05ae fs/block-dev.c:fix performance regression in O_DIRECT writes to md block devices
For regular file, write operaion used blk_plug function.But for block
file,write operation did not use blk_plug.
This patch is also for write-cache mode for block-device.

Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-08-02 09:50:39 +02:00
Jan Kara
5c0d6b60a0 vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:45 +04:00
Linus Torvalds
90324cc1b1 Merge tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
Pull writeback tree from Wu Fengguang:
 "Mainly from Jan Kara to avoid iput() in the flusher threads."

* tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread
  vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
  vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode()
  writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: Remove wb->list_lock from writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writeback
  writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling
  writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()
  writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete()
  writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit
  fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds
  mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally
2012-05-28 09:54:45 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
080399aaaf block: don't mark buffers beyond end of disk as mapped
Hi,

We have a bug report open where a squashfs image mounted on ppc64 would
exhibit errors due to trying to read beyond the end of the disk.  It can
easily be reproduced by doing the following:

[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# ls -l install.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142032896 Apr 30 16:46 install.img
[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# mount -o loop ./install.img /mnt/test
[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# dd if=/dev/loop0 of=/dev/null
dd: reading `/dev/loop0': Input/output error
277376+0 records in
277376+0 records out
142016512 bytes (142 MB) copied, 0.9465 s, 150 MB/s

In dmesg, you'll find the following:

squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[   43.106012] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106029] loop0: rw=0, want=277410, limit=277408
[   43.106039] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138704
[   43.106053] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106057] loop0: rw=0, want=277412, limit=277408
[   43.106061] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138705
[   43.106066] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106070] loop0: rw=0, want=277414, limit=277408
[   43.106073] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138706
[   43.106078] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106081] loop0: rw=0, want=277416, limit=277408
[   43.106085] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138707
[   43.106089] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106093] loop0: rw=0, want=277418, limit=277408
[   43.106096] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138708
[   43.106101] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106104] loop0: rw=0, want=277420, limit=277408
[   43.106108] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138709
[   43.106112] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106116] loop0: rw=0, want=277422, limit=277408
[   43.106120] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138710
[   43.106124] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106128] loop0: rw=0, want=277424, limit=277408
[   43.106131] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138711
[   43.106135] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106139] loop0: rw=0, want=277426, limit=277408
[   43.106143] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138712
[   43.106147] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106151] loop0: rw=0, want=277428, limit=277408
[   43.106154] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138713
[   43.106158] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106162] loop0: rw=0, want=277430, limit=277408
[   43.106166] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106169] loop0: rw=0, want=277432, limit=277408
...
[   43.106307] attempt to access beyond end of device
[   43.106311] loop0: rw=0, want=277470, limit=2774

Squashfs manages to read in the end block(s) of the disk during the
mount operation.  Then, when dd reads the block device, it leads to
block_read_full_page being called with buffers that are beyond end of
disk, but are marked as mapped.  Thus, it would end up submitting read
I/O against them, resulting in the errors mentioned above.  I fixed the
problem by modifying init_page_buffers to only set the buffer mapped if
it fell inside of i_size.

Cheers,
Jeff

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

--

Changes from v1->v2: re-used max_block, as suggested by Nick Piggin.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-05-11 16:42:14 +02:00
Jan Kara
dbd5768f87 vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-06 13:43:41 +08:00
Muthu Kumar
b502bd1152 magic.h: move some FS magic numbers into magic.h
- Move open-coded filesystem magic numbers into magic.h

- Rearrange magic.h so that the filesystem-related constants are grouped
  together.

Signed-off-by: Muthukumar R <muthur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:31 -07:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
16c0cfa425 Merge branch 'stable/cleancache.v13' into linux-next
* stable/cleancache.v13:
  mm: cleancache: Use __read_mostly as appropiate.
  mm: cleancache: report statistics via debugfs instead of sysfs.
  mm: zcache/tmem/cleancache: s/flush/invalidate/
  mm: cleancache: s/flush/invalidate/
2012-03-19 12:12:19 -04:00
Jun'ichi Nomura
fe316bf2d5 block: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_disk
Since 2.6.39 (1196f8b), when a driver returns -ENOMEDIUM for open(),
__blkdev_get() calls rescan_partitions() to remove
in-kernel partition structures and raise KOBJ_CHANGE uevent.

However it ends up calling driver's revalidate_disk without open
and could cause oops.

In the case of SCSI:

  process A                  process B
  ----------------------------------------------
  sys_open
    __blkdev_get
      sd_open
        returns -ENOMEDIUM
                             scsi_remove_device
                               <scsi_device torn down>
      rescan_partitions
        sd_revalidate_disk
          <oops>
Oopses are reported here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=132388619710052

This patch separates the partition invalidation from rescan_partitions()
and use it for -ENOMEDIUM case.

Reported-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-02 10:38:33 +01:00
Dan Magenheimer
3167760f83 mm: cleancache: s/flush/invalidate/
Per akpm suggestions alter the use of the term flush to be
invalidate. The next patch will do this across all MM.

This change is completely cosmetic.

[v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: change "flush" to "invalidate", part 3]

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Reviewed-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[v10: Fixed  fs: move code out of buffer.c conflict change]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-01-23 16:06:24 -05:00
Andi Kleen
87192a2a49 vfs: cache request_queue in struct block_device
This makes it possible to get from the inode to the request_queue with one
less cache miss.  Used in followon optimization.

The livetime of the pointer is the same as the gendisk.

This assumes that the queue will always stay the same in the gendisk while
it's visible to block_devices.  I think that's safe correct?

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:12 -08:00
Sergey Senozhatsky
ace8577aeb block_dev: Suppress bdev_cache_init() kmemleak warninig
Kmemleak reports the following warning in bdev_cache_init()
[    0.003738] kmemleak: Object 0xffff880153035200 (size 256):
[    0.003823] kmemleak:   comm "swapper/0", pid 0, jiffies 4294667299
[    0.003909] kmemleak:   min_count = 1
[    0.003988] kmemleak:   count = 0
[    0.004066] kmemleak:   flags = 0x1
[    0.004144] kmemleak:   checksum = 0
[    0.004224] kmemleak:   backtrace:
[    0.004303]      [<ffffffff814755ac>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x3e
[    0.004446]      [<ffffffff811100ba>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xca/0x1dc
[    0.004592]      [<ffffffff811371b1>] alloc_vfsmnt+0x1f/0x198
[    0.004736]      [<ffffffff811375c5>] vfs_kern_mount+0x36/0xd2
[    0.004879]      [<ffffffff8113929a>] kern_mount_data+0x18/0x32
[    0.005025]      [<ffffffff81ab9075>] bdev_cache_init+0x51/0x81
[    0.005169]      [<ffffffff81ab8abf>] vfs_caches_init+0x101/0x10d
[    0.005313]      [<ffffffff81a9bae3>] start_kernel+0x344/0x383
[    0.005456]      [<ffffffff81a9b2a7>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xae/0xb2
[    0.005602]      [<ffffffff81a9b3ad>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x102/0x111
[    0.005747]      [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
[    0.008653] kmemleak: Trying to color unknown object at 0xffff880153035220 as Grey
[    0.008754] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc0-dbg-04200-g8180888-dirty #888
[    0.008856] Call Trace:
[    0.008934]  [<ffffffff81118704>] ? find_and_get_object+0x44/0x118
[    0.009023]  [<ffffffff81118fe6>] paint_ptr+0x57/0x8f
[    0.009109]  [<ffffffff81475935>] kmemleak_not_leak+0x23/0x42
[    0.009195]  [<ffffffff81ab9096>] bdev_cache_init+0x72/0x81
[    0.009282]  [<ffffffff81ab8abf>] vfs_caches_init+0x101/0x10d
[    0.009368]  [<ffffffff81a9bae3>] start_kernel+0x344/0x383
[    0.009466]  [<ffffffff81a9b2a7>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xae/0xb2
[    0.009555]  [<ffffffff81a9b140>] ? early_idt_handlers+0x140/0x140
[    0.009643]  [<ffffffff81a9b3ad>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x102/0x111

due to attempt to mark pointer to `struct vfsmount' as a gray object, which
is embedded into `struct mount' returned from alloc_vfsmnt().

Make `bd_mnt' static, avoiding need to tell kmemleak to mark it gray, as
suggested by Al Viro.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-10 13:08:55 -05:00
Al Viro
ff01bb4832 fs: move code out of buffer.c
Move invalidate_bdev, block_sync_page into fs/block_dev.c.  Export
kill_bdev as well, so brd doesn't have to open code it.  Reduce
buffer_head.h requirement accordingly.

Removed a rather large comment from invalidate_bdev, as it looked a bit
obsolete to bother moving.  The small comment replacing it says enough.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:07 -05:00
Al Viro
6b520e0565 vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors
Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into
it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once();
the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes
and sockets and negative for everything else.  Not to mention the removal of
boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:52:40 -05:00
Al Viro
f47ec3f283 trim fs/internal.h
some stuff in there can actually become static; some belongs to pnode.h
as it's a private interface between namespace.c and pnode.c...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:52:35 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
3d0a8d10cf Merge branch 'for-3.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (30 commits)
  virtio-blk: use ida to allocate disk index
  hpsa: add small delay when using PCI Power Management to reset for kump
  cciss: add small delay when using PCI Power Management to reset for kump
  xen/blkback: Fix two races in the handling of barrier requests.
  xen/blkback: Check for proper operation.
  xen/blkback: Fix the inhibition to map pages when discarding sector ranges.
  xen/blkback: Report VBD_WSECT (wr_sect) properly.
  xen/blkback: Support 'feature-barrier' aka old-style BARRIER requests.
  xen-blkfront: plug device number leak in xlblk_init() error path
  xen-blkfront: If no barrier or flush is supported, use invalid operation.
  xen-blkback: use kzalloc() in favor of kmalloc()+memset()
  xen-blkback: fixed indentation and comments
  xen-blkfront: fix a deadlock while handling discard response
  xen-blkfront: Handle discard requests.
  xen-blkback: Implement discard requests ('feature-discard')
  xen-blkfront: add BLKIF_OP_DISCARD and discard request struct
  drivers/block/loop.c: remove unnecessary bdev argument from loop_clr_fd()
  drivers/block/loop.c: emit uevent on auto release
  drivers/block/cpqarray.c: use pci_dev->revision
  loop: always allow userspace partitions and optionally support automatic scanning
  ...

Fic up trivial header file includsion conflict in drivers/block/loop.c
2011-11-04 17:22:14 -07:00
Tejun Heo
523e1d399c block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue
The following command sequence triggers an oops.

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
# echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/0\:0\:1\:0/device/delete
# umount /mnt

 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU 2
 Modules linked in:

 Pid: 791, comm: umount Not tainted 3.1.0-rc3-work+ #8 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810d0879>]  [<ffffffff810d0879>] __lock_acquire+0x389/0x1d60
...
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff810d2845>] lock_acquire+0x95/0x140
  [<ffffffff81aed87b>] _raw_spin_lock+0x3b/0x50
  [<ffffffff811573bc>] bdi_lock_two+0x5c/0x70
  [<ffffffff811c2f6c>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x4c/0xf0
  [<ffffffff811c3fcb>] __blkdev_put+0x11b/0x1d0
  [<ffffffff811c4010>] __blkdev_put+0x160/0x1d0
  [<ffffffff811c40df>] blkdev_put+0x5f/0x190
  [<ffffffff8118f18d>] kill_block_super+0x4d/0x80
  [<ffffffff8118f4a5>] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x70
  [<ffffffff8119003a>] deactivate_super+0x4a/0x70
  [<ffffffff811ac4ad>] mntput_no_expire+0xed/0x130
  [<ffffffff811acf2e>] sys_umount+0x7e/0x3a0
  [<ffffffff81aeeeab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This is because bdev holds on to disk but disk doesn't pin the
associated queue.  If a SCSI device is removed while the device is
still open, the sdev puts the base reference to the queue on release.
When the bdev is finally released, the associated queue is already
gone along with the bdi and bdev_inode_switch_bdi() ends up
dereferencing already freed bdi.

Even if it were not for this bug, disk not holding onto the associated
queue is very unusual and error-prone.

Fix it by making add_disk() take an extra reference to its queue and
put it on disk_release() and ensuring that disk and its fops owner are
put in that order after all accesses to the disk and queue are
complete.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:31:07 +02:00
NeilBrown
94007751bb Avoid dereferencing a 'request_queue' after last close.
On the last close of an 'md' device which as been stopped, the device
is destroyed and in particular the request_queue is freed.  The free
is done in a separate thread so it might happen a short time later.

__blkdev_put calls bdev_inode_switch_bdi *after* ->release has been
called.

Since commit f758eeabeb
bdev_inode_switch_bdi will dereference the 'old' bdi, which lives
inside a request_queue, to get a spin lock.  This causes the last
close on an md device to sometime take a spin_lock which lives in
freed memory - which results in an oops.

So move the called to bdev_inode_switch_bdi before the call to
->release.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-09-10 17:20:21 +10:00
Tejun Heo
d27769ec3d block: add GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN
There are cases where suppressing partition scan is useful - e.g. for
lo devices and pseudo SATA devices which advertise to be a disk but
get upset on partition scan (some port multiplier control devices show
such behavior).

This patch adds GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN which suppresses partition scan
regardless of the number of possible partitions.  disk_partitionable()
is renamed to disk_part_scan_enabled() as suppressing partition scan
doesn't imply the device can't be partitioned using
BLKPG_ADD/DEL_PARTITION calls from userland.  show_partition() now
directly tests disk_max_parts() to maintain backward-compatibility.

-v2: Updated to make it clear that only partition scan is suppressed
     not partitioning itself as suggested by Kay Sievers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-23 20:01:04 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
da5aa861be fix block device fallout from ->fsync() changes
blkdev_fsync() needs to write pages in pagecache...

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-08-01 21:33:47 -04:00
Lachlan McIlroy
782b94cdf5 block: initialise bd_super in bdget()
bd_super is currently reset to NULL in kill_block_super() so we rely on previous
users of the block_device object to initialise this value for the next user.
This quirk was exposed on RHEL5 when a third party filesystem did not always use
kill_block_super() and therefore bd_super wasn't being reset when a block_device
object was recycled within the cache.  This may not be a problem upstream but
makes sense to be defensive.

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-08-01 01:57:44 -04:00