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Dave Chinner a1ecac3b06 loop: Make explicit loop device destruction lazy
xfstests has always had random failures of tests due to loop devices
failing to be torn down and hence leaving filesytems that cannot be
unmounted. This causes test runs to immediately stop.

Over the past 6 or 7 years we've added hacks like explicit unmount
-d commands for loop mounts, losetup -d after unmount -d fails, etc,
but still the problems persist.  Recently, the frequency of loop
related failures increased again to the point that xfstests 259 will
reliably fail with a stray loop device that was not torn down.

That is despite the fact the test is above as simple as it gets -
loop 5 or 6 times running mkfs.xfs with different paramters:

        lofile=$(losetup -f)
        losetup $lofile "$testfile"
        "$MKFS_XFS_PROG" -b size=512 $lofile >/dev/null || echo "mkfs failed!"
        sync
        losetup -d $lofile

And losteup -d $lofile is failing with EBUSY on 1-3 of these loops
every time the test is run.

Turns out that blkid is running simultaneously with losetup -d, and
so it sees an elevated reference count and returns EBUSY.  But why
is blkid running? It's obvious, isn't it? udev has decided to try
and find out what is on the block device as a result of a creation
notification. And it is racing with mkfs, so might still be scanning
the device when mkfs finishes and we try to tear it down.

So, make losetup -d force autoremove behaviour. That is, when the
last reference goes away, tear down the device. xfstests wants it
*gone*, not causing random teardown failures when we know that all
the operations the tests have specifically run on the device have
completed and are no longer referencing the loop device.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-10-30 08:37:31 +01:00
Eric W. Biederman e4849737f7 userns: Convert loop to use kuid_t instead of uid_t
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-09-21 03:13:20 -07:00
Silva Paulo 68d740d79c blk: fix wrong idr_pre_get() error check in loop.c
The idr_pre_get() function never returns a value < 0.  It returns 0 (no
memory) or 1 (OK).

Reported-by: Silva Paulo <psdasilva@yahoo.com>
[ Rewrote Silva's patch, but attributing it to Silva anyway  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-14 15:39:58 -07:00
Cong Wang cfd8005c99 block: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20 21:48:16 +08:00
Dave Young 306df0716a loop: zero fill bio instead of return -EIO for partial read
commit 8268f5a741 ("deny partial write for loop dev fd") tried to fix the
loop device partial read information leak problem.  But it changed the
semantics of read behavior.  When we read beyond the end of the device we
should get 0 bytes, which is normal behavior, we should not just return
-EIO

Instead of returning -EIO, zero out the bio to avoid information leak in
case of partail read.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-08 22:07:19 +01:00
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
Lukas Czerner dfaf3c036c loop: Fix discard_alignment default setting
discard_alignment is not relevant to the loop driver since it is
supposed to be set as a workaround for the old sector 63 alignments.
So set it to zero rather than block size.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-02 14:47:03 +01:00
Dave Young ae95757a90 loop: fix loop block driver discard and encryption comment
The loop driver does not support discard if encryption is enabled,
fix the comment.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-11-25 09:41:25 +01:00
Dmitry Monakhov 7035b5df3c loop: cleanup set_status interface
1) Anyone who has read access to loopdev has permission to call set_status
   and may change important parameters such as lo_offset, lo_sizelimit and
   so on, which contradicts to read access pattern and definitely equals
   to write access pattern.
2) Add lo_offset over i_size check to prevent blkdev_size overflow.
   ##Testcase_bagin
   #dd if=/dev/zero of=./file bs=1k count=1
   #losetup /dev/loop0 ./file
   /* userspace_application */
   struct loop_info64 loinf;
   fd = open("/dev/loop0", O_RDONLY);
   ioctl(fd, LOOP_GET_STATUS64, &loinf);
   /* Set offset to any value which is bigger than i_size, and sizelimit
    * to nonzero value*/
   loinf.lo_offset = 4096*1024;
   loinf.lo_sizelimit = 1024;
   ioctl(fd, LOOP_SET_STATUS64, &loinf);
   /* After this loop device will have size similar to 0x7fffffffffxxxx */
   #blockdev --getsz /dev/loop0
   ##OUTPUT: 36028797018955968
   ##Testcase_end

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-11-16 09:21:49 +01:00
Dmitry Monakhov 3bb9068278 loop: prevent information leak after failed read
If read was not fully successful we have to fail whole bio to prevent
information leak of old pages

##Testcase_begin
dd if=/dev/zero of=./file bs=1M count=1
losetup /dev/loop0 ./file -o 4096
truncate -s 0 ./file
# OOps loop offset is now beyond i_size, so read will silently fail.
# So bio's pages would not be cleared, may which result in information leak.
hexdump -C /dev/loop0
##testcase_end

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-11-16 09:21:48 +01:00
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
Jens Axboe 83157223de Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-3.2/core 2011-10-24 16:24:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe 5c04b426f2 Merge branch 'v3.1-rc10' into for-3.2/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	include/linux/blkdev.h

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:30:42 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 456be1484f loop: remove the incorrect write_begin/write_end shortcut
Currently the loop device tries to call directly into write_begin/write_end
instead of going through ->write if it can.  This is a fairly nasty shortcut
as write_begin and write_end are only callbacks for the generic write code
and expect to be called with filesystem specific locks held.

This code currently causes various issues for clustered filesystems as it
doesn't take the required cluster locks, and it also causes issues for XFS
as it doesn't properly lock against the swapext ioctl as called by the
defragmentation tools.  This in case causes data corruption if
defragmentation hits a busy loop device in the wrong time window, as
reported by RH QA.

The reason why we have this shortcut is that it saves a data copy when
doing a transformation on the loop device, which is the technical term
for using cryptoloop (or an XOR transformation).  Given that cryptoloop
has been deprecated in favour of dm-crypt my opinion is that we should
simply drop this shortcut instead of finding complicated ways to to
introduce a formal interface for this shortcut.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-17 12:57:20 +02:00
Ayan George 4c823cc3d5 drivers/block/loop.c: remove unnecessary bdev argument from loop_clr_fd()
If the loop device is associated (lo->lo_state == Lo_bound), it will have
a valid bdev pointed to by lo->lo_device.  There is no reason to ever pass
an additional block_device pointer.

Signed-off-by: Ayan George <ayan.george@canonical.com>
Cc: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-09-21 10:02:13 +02:00
Phillip Susi 8a9c594422 drivers/block/loop.c: emit uevent on auto release
The loopback driver failed to emit the change uevent when auto releasing
the device.  Fixed lo_release() to pass the bdev to loop_clr_fd() so it
can emit the event.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ayan George <ayan@ayan.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-09-21 10:02:13 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 5a7bbad27a block: remove support for bio remapping from ->make_request
There is very little benefit in allowing to let a ->make_request
instance update the bios device and sector and loop around it in
__generic_make_request when we can archive the same through calling
generic_make_request from the driver and letting the loop in
generic_make_request handle it.

Note that various drivers got the return value from ->make_request and
returned non-zero values for errors.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-09-12 12:12:01 +02:00
Kay Sievers e03c8dd149 loop: always allow userspace partitions and optionally support automatic scanning
Automatic partition scanning can be requested individually per loop
device during its setup by setting LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN. By default, no
partition tables are scanned.

Userspace can now always add and remove partitions from all loop
devices, regardless if the in-kernel partition scanner is enabled or
not.

The needed partition minor numbers are allocated from the extended
minors space, the main loop device numbers will continue to match the
loop minors, regardless of the number of partitions used.

  # grep . /sys/class/block/loop1/loop/*
  /sys/block/loop1/loop/autoclear:0
  /sys/block/loop1/loop/backing_file:/home/kay/data/stuff/part.img
  /sys/block/loop1/loop/offset:0
  /sys/block/loop1/loop/partscan:1
  /sys/block/loop1/loop/sizelimit:0

  # ls -l /dev/loop*
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk   7,   0 Aug 14 20:22 /dev/loop0
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk   7,   1 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop1
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259,   0 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop1p1
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259,   1 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop1p2
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk   7,  99 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop99
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259,   2 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop99p1
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259,   3 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop99p2
  crw------T 1 root root  10, 237 Aug 14 20:22 /dev/loop-control

Cc: Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Acked-By: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-23 20:12:04 +02:00
Lukas Czerner dfaa2ef68e loop: add discard support for loop devices
This commit adds discard support for loop devices. Discard is usually
supported by SSD and thinly provisioned devices as a method for
reclaiming unused space. This is no different than trying to reclaim
back space which is not used by the file system on the image, but it
still occupies space on the host file system.

We can do the reclamation on file system which does support hole
punching. So when discard request gets to the loop driver we can
translate that to punch a hole to the underlying file, hence reclaim
the free space.

This is very useful for trimming down the size of the image to only what
is really used by the file system on that image. Fstrim may be used for
that purpose.

It has been tested on ext4, xfs and btrfs with the image file systems
ext4, ext3, xfs and btrfs. ext4, or ext6 image on ext4 file system has
some problems but it seems that ext4 punch hole implementation is
somewhat flawed and it is unrelated to this commit.

Also this is a very good method of validating file systems punch hole
implementation.

Note that when encryption is used, discard support is disabled, because
using it might leak some information useful for possible attacker.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-19 14:50:46 +02:00
Kay Sievers 05eb0f252b loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
LOOP_CLR_FD takes lo->lo_ctl_mutex and tries to remove the loop sysfs
files. Sysfs calls show() and waits for lo->lo_ctl_mutex. LOOP_CLR_FD
waits for show() to finish to remove the sysfs file.

  cat /sys/class/block/loop0/loop/backing_file
    mutex_lock_nested+0x176/0x350
    ? loop_attr_do_show_backing_file+0x2f/0xd0 [loop]
    ? loop_attr_do_show_backing_file+0x2f/0xd0 [loop]
    loop_attr_do_show_backing_file+0x2f/0xd0 [loop]
    dev_attr_show+0x1b/0x60
    ? sysfs_read_file+0x86/0x1a0
    ? __get_free_pages+0x12/0x50
    sysfs_read_file+0xaf/0x1a0

  ioctl(LOOP_CLR_FD):
    wait_for_common+0x12c/0x180
    ? try_to_wake_up+0x2a0/0x2a0
    wait_for_completion+0x18/0x20
    sysfs_deactivate+0x178/0x180
    ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0x43/0x70
    ? sysfs_addrm_start+0x1d/0x20
    sysfs_addrm_finish+0x43/0x70
    sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x85/0xa0
    sysfs_remove_group+0x59/0x100
    loop_clr_fd+0x1dc/0x3f0 [loop]
    lo_ioctl+0x223/0x7a0 [loop]

Instead of taking the lo_ctl_mutex from sysfs code, take the inner
lo->lo_lock, to protect the access to the backing_file data.

Thanks to Tejun for help debugging and finding a solution.

Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-31 22:21:35 +02:00
Kay Sievers d134b00b9a loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
Instead of unconditionally creating a fixed number of dead loop
devices which need to be investigated by storage handling services,
even when they are never used, we allow distros start with 0
loop devices and have losetup(8) and similar switch to the dynamic
/dev/loop-control interface instead of searching /dev/loop%i for free
devices.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-31 22:08:04 +02:00
Kay Sievers 770fe30a46 loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
Loop devices today have a fixed pre-allocated number of usually 8.
The number can only be changed at module init time. To find a free
device to use, /dev/loop%i needs to be scanned, and all devices need
to be opened until a free one is possibly found.

This adds a new /dev/loop-control device node, that allows to
dynamically find or allocate a free device, and to add and remove loop
devices from the running system:
 LOOP_CTL_ADD adds a specific device. Arg is the number
 of the device. It returns the device i or a negative
 error code.

 LOOP_CTL_REMOVE removes a specific device, Arg is the
 number the device. It returns the device i or a negative
 error code.

 LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE finds the next unbound device or allocates
 a new one. No arg is given. It returns the device i or a
 negative error code.

The loop kernel module gets automatically loaded when
/dev/loop-control is accessed the first time. The alias
specified in the module, instructs udev to create this
'dead' device node, even when the module is not loaded.

Example:
 cfd = open("/dev/loop-control", O_RDWR);

 # add a new specific loop device
 err = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_ADD, devnr);

 # remove a specific loop device
 err = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_REMOVE, devnr);

 # find or allocate a free loop device to use
 devnr = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE);

 sprintf(loopname, "/dev/loop%i", devnr);
 ffd = open("backing-file", O_RDWR);
 lfd = open(loopname, O_RDWR);
 err = ioctl(lfd, LOOP_SET_FD, ffd);

Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-31 22:08:04 +02:00
Kay Sievers 34dd82afd2 loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
Replace the linked list, that keeps track of allocated devices, with an
idr index to allow a more efficient lookup of devices.

Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-31 22:08:04 +02:00
Namhyung Kim ac04fee0b5 loop: export module parameters
Export 'max_loop' and 'max_part' parameters to sysfs so user can know
that how many devices are allowed and how many partitions are supported.

If 'max_loop' is 0, there is no restriction on the number of loop devices.
User can create/use the devices as many as minor numbers available. If
'max_part' is 0, it means simply the device doesn't support partitioning.

Also note that 'max_part' can be adjusted to power of 2 minus 1 form if
needed. User should check this value after the module loading if he/she
want to use that number correctly (i.e. fdisk, mknod, etc.).

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-27 07:59:25 +02:00
Namhyung Kim a1c15c59fe loop: handle on-demand devices correctly
When finding or allocating a loop device, loop_probe() did not take
partition numbers into account so that it can result to a different
device. Consider following example:

$ sudo modprobe loop max_part=15
$ ls -l /dev/loop*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   0 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  16 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  32 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  48 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  64 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  80 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  96 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 112 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop7
$ sudo mknod /dev/loop8 b 7 128
$ sudo losetup /dev/loop8 ~/temp/disk-with-3-parts.img
$ sudo losetup -a
/dev/loop128: [0805]:278201 (/home/namhyung/temp/disk-with-3-parts.img)
$ ls -l /dev/loop*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,    0 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   16 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2048 2011-05-24 22:18 /dev/loop128
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2049 2011-05-24 22:18 /dev/loop128p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2050 2011-05-24 22:18 /dev/loop128p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2051 2011-05-24 22:18 /dev/loop128p3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   32 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   48 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   64 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   80 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   96 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  112 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop7
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,  128 2011-05-24 22:17 /dev/loop8

After this patch, /dev/loop8 - instead of /dev/loop128 - was
accessed correctly.

In addition, 'range' passed to blk_register_region() should
include all range of dev_t that LOOP_MAJOR can address. It does
not need to be limited by partition numbers unless 'max_loop'
param was specified.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24 16:48:55 +02:00
Namhyung Kim 78f4bb367f loop: limit 'max_part' module param to DISK_MAX_PARTS
The 'max_part' parameter controls the number of maximum partition
a loop block device can have. However if a user specifies very
large value it would exceed the limitation of device minor number
and can cause a kernel panic (or, at least, produce invalid
device nodes in some cases).

On my desktop system, following command kills the kernel. On qemu,
it triggers similar oops but the kernel was alive:

$ sudo modprobe loop max_part0000
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at /media/Linux_Data/project/linux/fs/sysfs/group.c:65!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
 last sysfs file:
 CPU 0
 Modules linked in: loop(+)

 Pid: 43, comm: insmod Tainted: G        W   2.6.39-qemu+ #155 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8113ce61>]  [<ffffffff8113ce61>] internal_create_group=
+0x2a/0x170
 RSP: 0018:ffff880007b3fde8  EFLAGS: 00000246
 RAX: 00000000ffffffef RBX: ffff880007b3d878 RCX: 00000000000007b4
 RDX: ffffffff8152da50 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff880007b3d878
 RBP: ffff880007b3fe38 R08: ffff880007b3fde8 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: ffff88000783b4a8 R11: ffff880007b3d878 R12: ffffffff8152da50
 R13: ffff880007b3d868 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff880007b3d800
 FS:  0000000002137880(0063) GS:ffff880007c00000(0000) knlGS:00000000000000=
00
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000422680 CR3: 0000000007b50000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 0000000000000000 DR7: 0000000000000000
 Process insmod (pid: 43, threadinfo ffff880007b3e000, task ffff880007afb9c=
0)
 Stack:
  ffff880007b3fe58 ffffffff811e66dd ffff880007b3fe58 ffffffff811e570b
  0000000000000010 ffff880007b3d800 ffff880007a7b390 ffff880007b3d868
  0000000000400920 ffff880007b3d800 ffff880007b3fe48 ffffffff8113cfc8
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff811e66dd>] ? device_add+0x4bc/0x5af
  [<ffffffff811e570b>] ? dev_set_name+0x3c/0x3e
  [<ffffffff8113cfc8>] sysfs_create_group+0xe/0x12
  [<ffffffff810b420e>] blk_trace_init_sysfs+0x14/0x16
  [<ffffffff8116a090>] blk_register_queue+0x47/0xf7
  [<ffffffff8116f527>] add_disk+0xdf/0x290
  [<ffffffffa00060eb>] loop_init+0xeb/0x1b8 [loop]
  [<ffffffffa0006000>] ? 0xffffffffa0005fff
  [<ffffffff8100020a>] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x12e
  [<ffffffff81096804>] sys_init_module+0x9c/0x1e0
  [<ffffffff813329bb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 Code: c3 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 89 f6 41 55 41 54 49 89 d4 53 48 89 fb=
 48 83 ec 28 48 85 ff 74 0b 85 f6 75 0b 48 83 7f 30 00 75 14 <0f> 0b eb fe =
48 83 7f 30 00 b9 ea ff ff ff 0f 84 18 01 00 00 49
 RIP  [<ffffffff8113ce61>] internal_create_group+0x2a/0x170
  RSP <ffff880007b3fde8>
 ---[ end trace a123eb592043acad ]---

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24 16:48:54 +02:00
Jens Axboe 4c63f5646e Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/stack-plug' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	block/blk-flush.c
	drivers/md/raid1.c
	drivers/md/raid10.c
	drivers/md/raid5.c
	fs/nilfs2/btnode.c
	fs/nilfs2/mdt.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:58:35 +01:00
Jens Axboe 7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
Tejun Heo e83a46bbb1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of ../linux-2.6-block into block-for-2.6.39/core
This merge creates two set of conflicts.  One is simple context
conflicts caused by removal of throtl_scheduled_delayed_work() in
for-linus and removal of throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() in
for-2.6.39/core.

The other is caused by commit 255bb490c8 (block: blk-flush shouldn't
call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue()) in for-linus
crashing with FLUSH reimplementation in for-2.6.39/core.  The conflict
isn't trivial but the resolution is straight-forward.

* __blk_run_queue() calls in flush_end_io() and flush_data_end_io()
  should be called with @force_kblockd set to %true.

* elv_insert() in blk_kick_flush() should use
  %ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE.

Both changes are to avoid invoking ->request_fn() directly from
request completion path and closely match the changes in the commit
255bb490c8.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-03-04 19:09:02 +01:00
Petr Uzel fd51469fb6 block: kill loop_mutex
Following steps lead to deadlock in kernel:

dd if=/dev/zero of=img bs=512 count=1000
losetup -f img
mkfs.ext2 /dev/loop0
mount -t ext2 -o loop /dev/loop0 mnt
umount mnt/

Stacktrace:
[<c102ec04>] irq_exit+0x36/0x59
[<c101502c>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x75
[<c127f639>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x38
[<c101df88>] mutex_spin_on_owner+0x54/0x5b
[<fe2250e9>] lo_release+0x12/0x67 [loop]
[<c10c4eae>] __blkdev_put+0x7c/0x10c
[<c10a4da5>] fput+0xd5/0x1aa
[<fe2250cf>] loop_clr_fd+0x1a9/0x1b1 [loop]
[<fe225110>] lo_release+0x39/0x67 [loop]
[<c10c4eae>] __blkdev_put+0x7c/0x10c
[<c10a59d9>] deactivate_locked_super+0x17/0x36
[<c10b6f37>] sys_umount+0x27e/0x2a5
[<c10b6f69>] sys_oldumount+0xb/0xe
[<c1002897>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

Regression since 2a48fc0ab2, which introduced the private
loop_mutex as part of the BKL removal process.

As per [1], the mutex can be safely removed.

[1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1341930

Addresses: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669394
Addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29172

Signed-off-by: Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-03 11:53:25 -05:00
Vivek Goyal cd25f54961 loop: No need to initialize ->queue_lock explicitly before calling blk_cleanup_queue()
Now we initialize ->queue_lock at queue allocation time so driver does
not have to worry about initializing it before calling
blk_cleanup_queue().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02 19:06:49 -05:00
Sergey Senozhatsky ee71a96867 loop: queue_lock NULL pointer derefence in blk_throtl_exit
Performing
$ sudo mount -o loop -o umask=0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

$ sudo modprobe -r loop

results in oops:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000004
 IP: [<ffffffff812479d4>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x14/0x122
 Process modprobe (pid: 6189, threadinfo ffff88009a898000, task ffff880154a88000)
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81486788>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x4a/0x51
  [<ffffffff8123404b>] ? blk_throtl_exit+0x3b/0xa0
  [<ffffffff8105b120>] ? cancel_delayed_work_sync+0xd/0xf
  [<ffffffff8123404b>] blk_throtl_exit+0x3b/0xa0
  [<ffffffff81229bc8>] blk_release_queue+0x21/0x65
  [<ffffffff8123bb06>] kobject_release+0x51/0x66
  [<ffffffff8123bab5>] ? kobject_release+0x0/0x66
  [<ffffffff8123ce1e>] kref_put+0x43/0x4d
  [<ffffffff8123ba27>] kobject_put+0x47/0x4b
  [<ffffffff8122717c>] blk_cleanup_queue+0x56/0x5b
  [<ffffffffa01c3824>] loop_exit+0x68/0x844 [loop]
  [<ffffffff8107cccc>] sys_delete_module+0x1e8/0x25b
  [<ffffffff814864c9>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
  [<ffffffff81002112>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

because of an attempt to acquire NULL queue_lock.
I added the same lines as in blk_queue_make_request -
index 44e18c0..49e6a54 100644`fall back to embedded per-queue lock'.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-19 08:25:02 -07:00
Jens Axboe 3603b8eacc Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
Commit a8adbe3 forgot to remove the return variable, kill it.

drivers/block/loop.c: In function 'lo_splice_actor':
drivers/block/loop.c:398: warning: unused variable 'ret'
[...]
fs/nfsd/vfs.c: In function 'nfsd_splice_actor':
fs/nfsd/vfs.c:848: warning: unused variable 'ret'

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-20 09:15:19 +01:00
Michał Mirosław a8adbe378b fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
This patch pulls calls to buf->ops->confirm() from all actors passed
(also indirectly) to splice_from_pipe_feed().

Is avoiding the call to buf->ops->confirm() while splice()ing to
/dev/null is an intentional optimization? No other user does that
and this will remove this special case.

Against current linux.git 6313e3c217.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17 08:56:44 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig 02e031cbc8 block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER
REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers.  What's left
at this point is:

 - various checks inside the block layer.
 - sanity checks in bio based drivers.
 - now unused bio_empty_barrier helper.
 - Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while,
   but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton.
 - setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi
   drivers.
 - scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been
   removed when flushes were converted to FS requests.
 - blktrace handling of barriers - removed.  Someone who knows blktrace
   better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-10 14:54:09 +01:00
Milan Broz 51a0bb0c2e loop: Properly clear sysfs in autoclear mode
In autoclear mode bdev is NULL but the sysfs
entry should be destroyed otherwise this warning appears:

WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:451 sysfs_add_one+0x82/0x95()
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/block/loop0/loop'

Fixes commit ee86273062

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-27 19:51:30 -06:00
Peter Zijlstra 61ecdb801e mm: strictly nested kmap_atomic()
Ensure kmap_atomic() usage is strictly nested

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a2887097f2 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (46 commits)
  xen-blkfront: disable barrier/flush write support
  Added blk-lib.c and blk-barrier.c was renamed to blk-flush.c
  block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT
  aic7xxx_old: removed unused 'req' variable
  block: remove the BH_Eopnotsupp flag
  block: remove the BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER flag
  block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag
  swap: do not send discards as barriers
  fat: do not send discards as barriers
  ext4: do not send discards as barriers
  jbd2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  jbd2: Modify ASYNC_COMMIT code to not rely on queue draining on barrier
  jbd: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  nilfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  reiserfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  gfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  btrfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  xfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  block: pass gfp_mask and flags to sb_issue_discard
  dm: convey that all flushes are processed as empty
  ...
2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8abfc6e7a4 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.37/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (95 commits)
  cciss: fix PCI IDs for new Smart Array controllers
  drbd: add race-breaker to drbd_go_diskless
  drbd: use dynamic_dev_dbg to optionally log uuid changes
  dynamic_debug.h: Fix dynamic_dev_dbg() macro if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG not set
  drbd: cleanup: change "<= 0" to "== 0"
  drbd: relax the grace period of the md_sync timer again
  drbd: add some more explicit drbd_md_sync
  drbd: drop wrong debug asserts, fix recently introduced race
  drbd: cleanup useless leftover warn/error printk's
  drbd: add explicit drbd_md_sync to drbd_resync_finished
  drbd: Do not log an ASSERT for P_OV_REQUEST packets while C_CONNECTED
  drbd: fix for possible deadlock on IO error during resync
  drbd: fix unlikely access after free and list corruption
  drbd: fix for spurious fullsync (uuids rotated too fast)
  drbd: allow for explicit resync-finished notifications
  drbd: preparation commit, using full state in receive_state()
  drbd: drbd_send_ack_dp must not rely on header information
  drbd: Fix regression in recv_bm_rle_bits (compressed bitmap)
  drbd: Fixed a stupid copy and paste error
  drbd: Allow larger values for c-fill-target.
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/block/ataflop.c due to BKL removal
2010-10-22 17:03:12 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann 2a48fc0ab2 block: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex
The block device drivers have all gained new lock_kernel
calls from a recent pushdown, and some of the drivers
were already using the BKL before.

This turns the BKL into a set of per-driver mutexes.
Still need to check whether this is safe to do.

file=$1
name=$2
if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then
    if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then
            sed -i '/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>/d' ${file}
    else
            sed -i 's/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>.*$/include <linux\/mutex.h>/g' ${file}
    fi
    sed -i ${file} \
        -e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ {
                1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ {
                     /^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex);

} }"  \
    -e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\>[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&${name}_mutex)/g" \
    -e '/[      ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
    sed -i -e '/include.*\<smp_lock.h\>/d' ${file}  \
                -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2010-10-05 15:01:10 +02:00
Tejun Heo 6259f28459 block/loop: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support
Deprecate REQ_HARDBARRIER and implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA instead.  Also,
instead of checking file->f_op->fsync() directly, look at the value of
vfs_fsync() and ignore -EINVAL return.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:37 +02:00
Tejun Heo 4913efe456 block: deprecate barrier and replace blk_queue_ordered() with blk_queue_flush()
Barrier is deemed too heavy and will soon be replaced by FLUSH/FUA
requests.  Deprecate barrier.  All REQ_HARDBARRIERs are failed with
-EOPNOTSUPP and blk_queue_ordered() is replaced with simpler
blk_queue_flush().

blk_queue_flush() takes combinations of REQ_FLUSH and FUA.  If a
device has write cache and can flush it, it should set REQ_FLUSH.  If
the device can handle FUA writes, it should also set REQ_FUA.

All blk_queue_ordered() users are converted.

* ORDERED_DRAIN is mapped to 0 which is the default value.
* ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH is mapped to REQ_FLUSH.
* ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH_FUA is mapped to REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:36 +02:00
Tejun Heo 589d7ed02a block/loop: queue ordered mode should be DRAIN_FLUSH
loop implements FLUSH using fsync but was incorrectly setting its
ordered mode to DRAIN.  Change it to DRAIN_FLUSH.  In practice, this
doesn't change anything as loop doesn't make use of the block layer
ordered implementation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:36 +02:00
Milan Broz ee86273062 loop: add some basic read-only sysfs attributes
Create /sys/block/loopX/loop directory and provide these attributes:
 - backing_file
 - autoclear
 - offset
 - sizelimit

This loop directory is present only if loop device is configured.

To be used in util-linux-ng (and possibly elsewhere like udev rules)
where code need to get loop attributes from kernel (and not store
duplicate info in userspace).

Moreover loop ioctls are not even able to provide full backing
file info because of buffer limits.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 15:18:10 +02:00
Jiri Slaby 5e00d1b5b4 BLOCK: fix bio.bi_rw handling
Return of the bi_rw tests is no longer bool after commit 74450be1. But
results of such tests are stored in bools. This doesn't fit in there
for some compilers (gcc 4.5 here), so either use !! magic to get real
bools or use ulong where the result is assigned somewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 12:33:10 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann 6e9624b8ca block: push down BKL into .open and .release
The open and release block_device_operations are currently
called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must
first make sure that all drivers that currently rely
on this have no regressions.

This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release
operations for all block drivers to prepare for the
next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL
with their own locks or remove it completely when it can
be shown that it is not needed.

The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only
remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block
layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none
of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}.

Most of these two functions is also under the protection
of bdev->bd_mutex, including the actual calls to
->open and ->release, and the common code does not
access any global data structures that need the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:25:34 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori 00fff26539 block: remove q->prepare_flush_fn completely
This removes q->prepare_flush_fn completely (changes the
blk_queue_ordered API).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:24:15 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 7b6d91daee block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver.  There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests:  BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 8018ab0574 sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions
Now that the last user passing a NULL file pointer is gone we can remove
the redundant dentry argument and associated hacks inside vfs_fsynmc_range.

The next step will be removig the dentry argument from ->fsync, but given
the luck with the last round of method prototype changes I'd rather
defer this until after the main merge window.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
David Zeuthen c3473c6354 generate "change" uevent for loop device
Recent udev versions probe loop devices for filesystems meaning that
the /dev/disk hierarchy may contain useful entries such as

 $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 11 13:41 /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live -> ../../loop0

Unfortunately, no "change" uevent is generated when the loop device is
detached so the symlink persists. Additionally, no "change" uevent is
guaranteed to be generated when attaching an fd or changing capacity.
For example,  user space could open the loop device O_RDONLY (in fact,
recent util-linux-ng does this) so udev's OPTIONS+="watch" machinery may
not trigger the "change" uevent.

This patch ensures that the "change" uevent is generated in all of
these cases. As a result, the /dev/disk hierarchy works as expected
for loop devices.

Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:30 -07:00