linux-toradex.git/block, branch v4.4.5

block: Initialize max_dev_sectors to 0

2016-03-09T23:34:49+00:00

commit 5f009d3f8e6685fe8c6215082c1696a08b411220 upstream.

The new queue limit is not used by the majority of block drivers, and
should be initialized to 0 for the driver's requested settings to be used.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch 
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

bio: return EINTR if copying to user space got interrupted

2016-03-03T23:07:28+00:00

commit 2d99b55d378c996b9692a0c93dd25f4ed5d58934 upstream.

Commit 35dc248383bbab0a7203fca4d722875bc81ef091 introduced a check for
current->mm to see if we have a user space context and only copies data
if we do. Now if an IO gets interrupted by a signal data isn't copied
into user space any more (as we don't have a user space context) but
user space isn't notified about it.

This patch modifies the behaviour to return -EINTR from bio_uncopy_user()
to notify userland that a signal has interrupted the syscall, otherwise
it could lead to a situation where the caller may get a buffer with
no data returned.

This can be reproduced by issuing SG_IO ioctl()s in one thread while
constantly sending signals to it.

Fixes: 35dc248 [SCSI] sg: Fix user memory corruption when SG_IO is interrupted by a signal
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block: fix bio splitting on max sectors

2016-02-17T20:30:56+00:00

commit d0e5fbb01a67e400e82fefe4896ea40c6447ab98 upstream.

After commit e36f62042880(block: split bios to maxpossible length),
bio can be splitted in the middle of a vector entry, then it
is easy to split out one bio which size isn't aligned with block
size, especially when the block size is bigger than 512.

This patch fixes the issue by making the max io size aligned
to logical block size.

Fixes: e36f62042880(block: split bios to maxpossible length)
Reported-by: Stefan Haberland 
Cc: Keith Busch 
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block: split bios to max possible length

2016-02-17T20:30:55+00:00

commit e36f6204288088fda50d1c84830340ccb70f85ff upstream.

This splits bio in the middle of a vector to form the largest possible
bio at the h/w's desired alignment, and guarantees the bio being split
will have some data.

The criteria for splitting is changed from the max sectors to the h/w's
optimal sector alignment if it is provided. For h/w that advertise their
block storage's underlying chunk size, it's a big performance win to not
submit commands that cross them. If sector alignment is not provided,
this patch uses the max sectors as before.

This addresses the performance issue commit d380561113 attempted to
fix, but was reverted due to splitting logic error.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Ming Lei 
Cc: Kent Overstreet 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "block: Split bios on chunk boundaries"

2016-01-08T16:00:29+00:00

This reverts commit d3805611130af9b911e908af9f67a3f64f4f0914.

If we end up splitting on the first segment, we don't adjust
the sector count. That results in hitting a BUG() with attempting
to split 0 sectors.

As this is just a performance issue and not a regression since
4.3 release, let's just rever this change. That gives us more
time to test a real fix for 4.5, which would be marked for
stable anyway.

block: add blk_start_queue_async()

2015-12-28T20:07:07+00:00

We currently only have an inline/sync helper to restart a stopped
queue. If drivers need an async version, they have to roll their
own. Add a generic helper instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Split bios on chunk boundaries

2015-12-23T00:19:25+00:00

For h/w that advertise their block storage's underlying chunk size, it's
a big performance win to not submit commands that cross them. This patch
uses that criteria if it is provided. If it is not provided, this patch
uses the max sectors as before.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

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

2015-12-23T00:00:25+00:00

Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Three small fixes for 4.4 final. Specifically:

   - The segment issue fix from Junichi, where the old IO path does a
     bio limit split before potentially bouncing the pages.  We need to
     do that in the right order, to ensure that limitations are met.

   - A NVMe surprise removal IO hang fix from Keith.

   - A use-after-free in null_blk, introduced by a previous patch in
     this series.  From Mike Krinkin"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  null_blk: fix use-after-free error
  block: ensure to split after potentially bouncing a bio
  NVMe: IO ending fixes on surprise removal

block: ensure to split after potentially bouncing a bio

2015-12-22T17:26:53+00:00

blk_queue_bio() does split then bounce, which makes the segment
counting based on pages before bouncing and could go wrong. Move
the split to after bouncing, like we do for blk-mq, and the we
fix the issue of having the bio count for segments be wrong.

Fixes: 54efd50bfd87 ("block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Artem S. Tashkinov 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

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

2015-12-12T18:24:00+00:00

Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "A set of fixes for the current series.  This contains:

   - A bunch of fixes for lightnvm, should be the last round for this
     series.  From Matias and Wenwei.

   - A writeback detach inode fix from Ilya, also marked for stable.

   - A block (though it says SCSI) fix for an OOPS in SCSI runtime power
     management.

   - Module init error path fixes for null_blk from Minfei"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  null_blk: Fix error path in module initialization
  lightnvm: do not compile in debugging by default
  lightnvm: prevent gennvm module unload on use
  lightnvm: fix media mgr registration
  lightnvm: replace req queue with nvmdev for lld
  lightnvm: comments on constants
  lightnvm: check mm before use
  lightnvm: refactor spin_unlock in gennvm_get_blk
  lightnvm: put blks when luns configure failed
  lightnvm: use flags in rrpc_get_blk
  block: detach bdev inode from its wb in __blkdev_put()
  SCSI: Fix NULL pointer dereference in runtime PM