linux-toradex.git/block/partition-generic.c, branch v5.6

block: allow partitions on host aware zone devices

2020-01-26T16:59:08+00:00

Host-aware SMR drives can be used with the commands to explicitly manage
zone state, but they can also be used as normal disks.  In the former
case it makes perfect sense to allow partitions on them, in the latter
it does not, just like for host managed devices.  Add a check to
add_partition to allow partitions on host aware devices, but give
up any zone management capabilities in that case, which also catches
the previously missed case of adding a partition vs just scanning it.

Because sd can rescan the attribute at runtime it needs to check if
a disk has partitions, for which a new helper is added to genhd.h.

Fixes: 5eac3eb30c9a ("block: Remove partition support for zoned block devices")
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Tested-by: Damien Le Moal 
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'for-5.5/disk-revalidate-20191122' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2019-11-25T19:37:01+00:00

Pull disk revalidation updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This continues the work that Jan Kara started to thoroughly cleanup
  and consolidate how we handle rescans and revalidations"

* tag 'for-5.5/disk-revalidate-20191122' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: move clearing bd_invalidated into check_disk_size_change
  block: remove (__)blkdev_reread_part as an exported API
  block: fix bdev_disk_changed for non-partitioned devices
  block: move rescan_partitions to fs/block_dev.c
  block: merge invalidate_partitions into rescan_partitions
  block: refactor rescan_partitions

Merge tag 'for-5.5/zoned-20191122' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2019-11-25T19:22:37+00:00

Pull zoned block device update from Jens Axboe:
 "Enhancements and improvements to the zoned device support"

* tag 'for-5.5/zoned-20191122' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  scsi: sd_zbc: Remove set but not used variable 'buflen'
  block: rework zone reporting
  scsi: sd_zbc: Cleanup sd_zbc_alloc_report_buffer()
  null_blk: Add zone_nr_conv to features
  null_blk: clean up report zones
  null_blk: clean up the block device operations
  block: Remove partition support for zoned block devices
  block: Simplify report zones execution
  block: cleanup the !zoned case in blk_revalidate_disk_zones
  block: Enhance blk_revalidate_disk_zones()

block: add iostat counters for flush requests

2019-11-21T16:06:47+00:00

Requests that triggers flushing volatile writeback cache to disk (barriers)
have significant effect to overall performance.

Block layer has sophisticated engine for combining several flush requests
into one. But there is no statistics for actual flushes executed by disk.
Requests which trigger flushes usually are barriers - zero-size writes.

This patch adds two iostat counters into /sys/class/block/$dev/stat and
/proc/diskstats - count of completed flush requests and their total time.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: fix bdev_disk_changed for non-partitioned devices

2019-11-14T14:43:53+00:00

We still have to set the capacity to 0 if invalidating or call
revalidate_disk if not even if the disk has no partitions.  Fix
that by merging rescan_partitions into bdev_disk_changed and just
stubbing out blk_add_partitions and blk_drop_partitions for
non-partitioned devices.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: move rescan_partitions to fs/block_dev.c

2019-11-14T14:43:21+00:00

Large parts of rescan_partitions aren't about partitions, and
moving it to block_dev.c will allow for some further cleanups by
merging it into its only caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: merge invalidate_partitions into rescan_partitions

2019-11-14T14:42:41+00:00

A lot of the logic in invalidate_partitions and rescan_partitions is
shared.  Merge the two functions to simplify things.  There is a small
behavior change in that we now send the kevent change notice also if we
were not invalidating but no partitions were found, which seems like
the right thing to do.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: refactor rescan_partitions

2019-11-14T14:40:55+00:00

Split out a helper that adds one single partition, and another one
calling that dealing with the parsed_partitions state.  This makes
it much more obvious how we clean up all state and start again when
using the rescan label.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Remove partition support for zoned block devices

2019-11-13T02:11:57+00:00

No known partitioning tool supports zoned block devices, especially the
host managed flavor with strong sequential write constraints.
Furthermore, there are also no known user nor use cases for partitioned
zoned block devices.

This patch removes partition device creation for zoned block devices,
which allows simplifying the processing of zone commands for zoned
block devices. A warning is added if a partition table is found on the
device.

For report zones operations no zone sector information remapping is
necessary anymore, simplifying the code. Of note is that remapping of
zone reports for DM targets is still necessary as done by
dm_remap_zone_report().

Similarly, remaping of a zone reset bio is not necessary anymore.
Testing for the applicability of the zone reset all request also becomes
simpler and only needs to check that the number of sectors of the
requested zone range is equal to the disk capacity.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: fix use-after-free on gendisk

2019-04-22T15:48:12+00:00

commit 2da78092dda "block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime"
specifically moved blk_free_devt(dev->devt) call to part_release()
to avoid reallocating device number before the device is fully
shutdown.

However, it can cause use-after-free on gendisk in get_gendisk().
We use md device as example to show the race scenes:

Process1		Worker			Process2
md_free
						blkdev_open
del_gendisk
  add delete_partition_work_fn() to wq
  						__blkdev_get
						get_gendisk
put_disk
  disk_release
    kfree(disk)
    						find part from ext_devt_idr
						get_disk_and_module(disk)
    					  	cause use after free

    			delete_partition_work_fn
			put_device(part)
    		  	part_release
		    	remove part from ext_devt_idr

Before  is removed from ext_devt_idr by
delete_partition_work_fn(), we can find the devt and then access
gendisk by hd_struct pointer. But, if we access the gendisk after
it have been freed, it can cause in use-after-freeon gendisk in
get_gendisk().

We fix this by adding a new helper blk_invalidate_devt() in
delete_partition() and del_gendisk(). It replaces hd_struct
pointer in idr with value 'NULL', and deletes the entry from
idr in part_release() as we do now.

Thanks to Jan Kara for providing the solution and more clear comments
for the code.

Fixes: 2da78092dda1 ("block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime")
Cc: Al Viro 
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche 
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Suggested-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Yufen Yu 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe