linux-toradex.git/block, branch v4.10-rc4

block: don't try to discard from __blkdev_issue_zeroout

2017-01-13T22:18:16+00:00

Discard can return -EIO asynchronously if the alignment for the request
isn't suitable for the driver, which makes a proper fallback to other
methods in __blkdev_issue_zeroout impossible.  Thus only issue a sync
discard from blkdev_issue_zeroout an don't try discard at all from
__blkdev_issue_zeroout as a non-invasive workaround.

One more reason why abusing discard for zeroing must die..

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reported-by: Eryu Guan 
Fixes: e73c23ff ("block: add async variant of blkdev_issue_zeroout")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Rename blk_queue_zone_size and bdev_zone_size

2017-01-12T14:58:32+00:00

All block device data fields and functions returning a number of 512B
sectors are by convention named xxx_sectors while names in the form
xxx_size are generally used for a number of bytes. The blk_queue_zone_size
and bdev_zone_size functions were not following this convention so rename
them.

No functional change is introduced by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal 

Collapsed the two patches, they were nonsensically split and broke
bisection.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

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

2017-01-04T17:03:37+00:00

Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "A set of fixes for the current series, one fixing a regression with
  block size < page cache size in the alias series from Jan. Outside of
  that, two small cleanups for wbt from Bart, a nvme pull request from
  Christoph, and a few small fixes of documentation updates"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: fix up io_poll documentation
  block: Avoid that sparse complains about context imbalance in __wbt_wait()
  block: Make wbt_wait() definition consistent with declaration
  clean_bdev_aliases: Prevent cleaning blocks that are not in block range
  genhd: remove dead and duplicated scsi code
  block: add back plugging in __blkdev_direct_IO
  nvmet/fcloop: remove some logically dead code performing redundant ret checks
  nvmet: fix KATO offset in Set Features
  nvme/fc: simplify error handling of nvme_fc_create_hw_io_queues
  nvme/fc: correct some printk information
  nvme/scsi: Remove START STOP emulation
  nvme/pci: Delete misleading queue-wrap comment
  nvme/pci: Fix whitespace problem
  nvme: simplify stripe quirk
  nvme: update maintainers information

block: Avoid that sparse complains about context imbalance in __wbt_wait()

2017-01-02T16:48:47+00:00

This patch does not change any functionality.

Fixes: e34cbd307477 ("blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Make wbt_wait() definition consistent with declaration

2017-01-02T16:46:15+00:00

Fixes: e34cbd307477 ("blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage

2016-12-25T16:21:22+00:00

ktime_set(S,N) was required for the timespec storage type and is still
useful for situations where a Seconds and Nanoseconds part of a time value
needs to be converted. For anything where the Seconds argument is 0, this
is pointless and can be replaced with a simple assignment.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra

Replace with globally

2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2016-12-23T18:52:43+00:00

Pull final vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  sg_write()/bsg_write() is not fit to be called under KERNEL_DS
  ufs: fix function declaration for ufs_truncate_blocks
  fs: exec: apply CLOEXEC before changing dumpable task flags
  seq_file: reset iterator to first record for zero offset
  vfs: fix isize/pos/len checks for reflink & dedupe
  [iov_iter] fix iterate_all_kinds() on empty iterators
  move aio compat to fs/aio.c
  reorganize do_make_slave()
  clone_private_mount() doesn't need to touch namespace_sem
  remove a bogus claim about namespace_sem being held by callers of mnt_alloc_id()

sg_write()/bsg_write() is not fit to be called under KERNEL_DS

2016-12-23T04:03:42+00:00

Both damn things interpret userland pointers embedded into the payload;
worse, they are actually traversing those.  Leaving aside the bad
API design, this is very much _not_ safe to call with KERNEL_DS.
Bail out early if that happens.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

block: check partition alignment

2016-12-19T16:20:59+00:00

Partitions that are not aligned to the blocksize of a device may cause
invalid I/O requests because the blocklayer cares only about alignment
within the partition when building requests on partitions.

device
|--------4096--------|--------4096--------|--------4096--------|
partition offset 512byte
|-512-|--------4096--------|--------4096--------|--------4096--------|

When reading/writing one 4k block of the partition this maps to
reading/writing with an offset of 512 byte of the device leading to
unaligned requests for the device which in turn may cause unexpected
behavior of the device driver.

For DASD devices we have to translate the block number into a cylinder,
head, record format. The unaligned requests lead to wrong calculation
and therefore to misdirected I/O. In a "good" case this leads to I/O
errors because the underlying hardware detects the wrong addressing.
In a worst case scenario this might destroy data on the device.

To prevent partitions that are not aligned to the physical blocksize
of a device check for the alignment in the blkpg_ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe