linux-toradex.git/block, branch v3.12.2

block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device

2013-11-29T19:28:07+00:00

commit d82ae52e68892338068e7559a0c0657193341ce4 upstream.

Without this patch all DM devices will default to BLK_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE
(65536) even if the underlying device(s) have a larger value -- this is
due to blk_stack_limits() using min_not_zero() when stacking the
max_segment_size limit.

1073741824

before patch:
65536

after patch:
1073741824

Reported-by: Lukasz Flis 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block: fix race between request completion and timeout handling

2013-11-29T19:28:06+00:00

commit 4912aa6c11e6a5d910264deedbec2075c6f1bb73 upstream.

crocode i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support shpchp ioatdma dca be2net sg ses enclosure ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif ahci megaraid_sas(U) dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]

Pid: 491, comm: scsi_eh_0 Tainted: G        W  ----------------   2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64 #1 IBM  -[8722PAX]-/00D1461
RIP: 0010:[]  [] blk_requeue_request+0x94/0xa0
RSP: 0018:ffff881057eefd60  EFLAGS: 00010012
RAX: ffff881d99e3e8a8 RBX: ffff881d99e3e780 RCX: ffff881d99e3e8a8
RDX: ffff881d99e3e8a8 RSI: ffff881d99e3e780 RDI: ffff881d99e3e780
RBP: ffff881057eefd80 R08: ffff881057eefe90 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff881057f92338
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff881057f92338 R15: ffff883058188000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880040200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000000006d3ec0 CR3: 000000302cd7d000 CR4: 00000000000406b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process scsi_eh_0 (pid: 491, threadinfo ffff881057eee000, task ffff881057e29540)
Stack:
 0000000000001057 0000000000000286 ffff8810275efdc0 ffff881057f16000
<0> ffff881057eefdd0 ffffffff81362323 ffff881057eefe20 ffffffff8135f393
<0> ffff881057e29af8 ffff8810275efdc0 ffff881057eefe78 ffff881057eefe90
Call Trace:
 [] __scsi_queue_insert+0xa3/0x150
 [] ? scsi_eh_ready_devs+0x5e3/0x850
 [] scsi_queue_insert+0x13/0x20
 [] scsi_eh_flush_done_q+0x104/0x160
 [] scsi_error_handler+0x35b/0x660
 [] ? scsi_error_handler+0x0/0x660
 [] kthread+0x96/0xa0
 [] child_rip+0xa/0x20
 [] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
 [] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
Code: 00 00 eb d1 4c 8b 2d 3c 8f 97 00 4d 85 ed 74 bf 49 8b 45 00 49 83 c5 08 48 89 de 4c 89 e7 ff d0 49 8b 45 00 48 85 c0 75 eb eb a4 <0f> 0b eb fe 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 0f 1f 44 00 00
RIP  [] blk_requeue_request+0x94/0xa0
 RSP 

The RIP is this line:
        BUG_ON(blk_queued_rq(rq));

After digging through the code, I think there may be a race between the
request completion and the timer handler running.

A timer is started for each request put on the device's queue (see
blk_start_request->blk_add_timer).  If the request does not complete
before the timer expires, the timer handler (blk_rq_timed_out_timer)
will mark the request complete atomically:

static inline int blk_mark_rq_complete(struct request *rq)
{
        return test_and_set_bit(REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE, &rq->atomic_flags);
}

and then call blk_rq_timed_out.  The latter function will call
scsi_times_out, which will return one of BLK_EH_HANDLED,
BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER or BLK_EH_NOT_HANDLED.  If BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER is
returned, blk_clear_rq_complete is called, and blk_add_timer is again
called to simply wait longer for the request to complete.

Now, if the request happens to complete while this is going on, what
happens?  Given that we know the completion handler will bail if it
finds the REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE bit set, we need to focus on the completion
handler running after that bit is cleared.  So, from the above
paragraph, after the call to blk_clear_rq_complete.  If the completion
sets REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE before the BUG_ON in blk_add_timer, we go boom
there (I haven't seen this in the cores).  Next, if we get the
completion before the call to list_add_tail, then the timer will
eventually fire for an old req, which may either be freed or reallocated
(there is evidence that this might be the case).  Finally, if the
completion comes in *after* the addition to the timeout list, I think
it's harmless.  The request will be removed from the timeout list,
req_atom_complete will be set, and all will be well.

This will only actually explain the coredumps *IF* the request
structure was freed, reallocated *and* queued before the error handler
thread had a chance to process it.  That is possible, but it may make
sense to keep digging for another race.  I think that if this is what
was happening, we would see other instances of this problem showing up
as null pointer or garbage pointer dereferences, for example when the
request structure was not re-used.  It looks like we actually do run
into that situation in other reports.

This patch moves the BUG_ON(test_bit(REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE,
&req->atomic_flags)); from blk_add_timer to the only caller that could
trip over it (blk_start_request).  It then inverts the calls to
blk_clear_rq_complete and blk_add_timer in blk_rq_timed_out to address
the race.  I've boot tested this patch, but nothing more.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer 
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block/partitions/efi.c: treat size mismatch as a warning, not an error

2013-10-17T04:35:53+00:00

In commit 27a7c642174e ("partitions/efi: account for pmbr size in lba")
we started treating bad sizes in lba field of the partition that has the
0xEE (GPT protective) as errors.

However, we may run into these "bad sizes" in the real world if someone
uses dd to copy an image from a smaller disk to a bigger disk.  Since
this case used to work (even without using force_gpt), keep it working
and treat the size mismatch as a warning instead of an error.

Reported-by: Josh Triplett 
Reported-by: Sean Paul 
Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett 
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: change config option name for cmdline partition parsing

2013-09-30T21:31:02+00:00

Recently commit bab55417b10c ("block: support embedded device command
line partition") introduced CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARSER.  However, that name
is too generic and sounds like it enables/disables generic kernel boot
arg processing, when it really is block specific.

Before this option becomes a part of a full/final release, add the BLK_
prefix to it so that it is clear in absence of any other context that it
is block specific.

In addition, fix up the following less critical items:
 - help text was not really at all helpful.
 - index file for Documentation was not updated
 - add the new arg to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
 - clarify wording in source comments

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Cai Zhiyong 
Cc: Wei Yongjun 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-3.12/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2013-09-22T22:00:11+00:00

Pull block IO fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "After merge window, no new stuff this time only a collection of neatly
  confined and simple fixes"

* 'for-3.12/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  cfq: explicitly use 64bit divide operation for 64bit arguments
  block: Add nr_bios to block_rq_remap tracepoint
  If the queue is dying then we only call the rq->end_io callout. This leaves bios setup on the request, because the caller assumes when the blk_execute_rq_nowait/blk_execute_rq call has completed that the rq->bios have been cleaned up.
  bio-integrity: Fix use of bs->bio_integrity_pool after free
  blkcg: relocate root_blkg setting and clearing
  block: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...)
  block: trace all devices plug operation

cfq: explicitly use 64bit divide operation for 64bit arguments

2013-09-22T18:43:47+00:00

'samples' is 64bit operant, but do_div() second parameter is 32.
do_div silently truncates high 32 bits and calculated result
is invalid.

In case if low 32bit of 'samples' are zeros then do_div() produces
kernel crash.

Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

If the queue is dying then we only call the rq->end_io callout.

2013-09-18T14:33:55+00:00

This leaves bios setup on the request, because the caller assumes when
the blk_execute_rq_nowait/blk_execute_rq call has completed that
the rq->bios have been cleaned up.

This patch has blk_execute_rq_nowait use __blk_end_request_all
to free bios and also call rq->end_io.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

partitions/efi: loosen check fot pmbr size in lba

2013-09-15T11:10:16+00:00

Matt found that commit 27a7c642174e ("partitions/efi: account for pmbr
size in lba") caused his GPT formatted eMMC device not to boot.  The
reason is that this commit enforced Linux to always check the lesser of
the whole disk or 2Tib for the pMBR size in LBA.  While most disk
partitioning tools out there create a pMBR with these characteristics,
Microsoft does not, as it always sets the entry to the maximum 32-bit
limitation - even though a drive may be smaller than that[1].

Loosen this check and only verify that the size is either the whole disk
or 0xFFFFFFFF.  No tool in its right mind would set it to any value
other than these.

[1] http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/GPT.htm#GPTPT

Reported-and-tested-by: Matt Porter 
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lib/radix-tree.c: make radix_tree_node_alloc() work correctly within interrupt

2013-09-11T22:59:36+00:00

With users of radix_tree_preload() run from interrupt (block/blk-ioc.c is
one such possible user), the following race can happen:

radix_tree_preload()
...
radix_tree_insert()
  radix_tree_node_alloc()
    if (rtp->nr) {
      ret = rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1];

...
radix_tree_preload()
...
radix_tree_insert()
  radix_tree_node_alloc()
    if (rtp->nr) {
      ret = rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1];

And we give out one radix tree node twice.  That clearly results in radix
tree corruption with different results (usually OOPS) depending on which
two users of radix tree race.

We fix the problem by making radix_tree_node_alloc() always allocate fresh
radix tree nodes when in interrupt.  Using preloading when in interrupt
doesn't make sense since all the allocations have to be atomic anyway and
we cannot steal nodes from process-context users because some users rely
on radix_tree_insert() succeeding after radix_tree_preload().
in_interrupt() check is somewhat ugly but we cannot simply key off passed
gfp_mask as that is acquired from root_gfp_mask() and thus the same for
all preload users.

Another part of the fix is to avoid node preallocation in
radix_tree_preload() when passed gfp_mask doesn't allow waiting.  Again,
preallocation in such case doesn't make sense and when preallocation would
happen in interrupt we could possibly leak some allocated nodes.  However,
some users of radix_tree_preload() require following radix_tree_insert()
to succeed.  To avoid unexpected effects for these users,
radix_tree_preload() only warns if passed gfp mask doesn't allow waiting
and we provide a new function radix_tree_maybe_preload() for those users
which get different gfp mask from different call sites and which are
prepared to handle radix_tree_insert() failure.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block/partitions/efi.c: consistently use pr_foo()

2013-09-11T22:59:19+00:00

Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Karel Zak 
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds