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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/block/nbd.c, branch v2.6.32.33</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>const: make block_device_operations const</title>
<updated>2009-09-22T14:17:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-22T00:01:13+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: implement and enforce request peek/start/fetch</title>
<updated>2009-05-11T07:52:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-08T02:54:16+00:00</published>
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Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution.
A request is always acquired from the request queue via
elv_next_request().  After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it
or process it without dequeueing.  Dequeue allows elv_next_request()
to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight.

Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in
allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with
segments only without considering request boundary.  However, the
benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API
ambiguity is increasing.  Segment based drivers are usually for very
old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't
difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer
and its more modern users.

Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing
model.  This patch completes the API transition by...

* renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request()

* renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request()

* adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start

* disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests

* applying new API to all LLDs

Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that
it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating.

[ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Cc: unsik Kim &lt;donari75@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Cc: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;petkovbb@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Pierre Ossman &lt;drzeus@drzeus.cx&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Markus Lidel &lt;Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber &lt;wein@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution.
A request is always acquired from the request queue via
elv_next_request().  After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it
or process it without dequeueing.  Dequeue allows elv_next_request()
to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight.

Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in
allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with
segments only without considering request boundary.  However, the
benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API
ambiguity is increasing.  Segment based drivers are usually for very
old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't
difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer
and its more modern users.

Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing
model.  This patch completes the API transition by...

* renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request()

* renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request()

* adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start

* disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests

* applying new API to all LLDs

Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that
it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating.

[ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Cc: unsik Kim &lt;donari75@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Cc: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;petkovbb@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Pierre Ossman &lt;drzeus@drzeus.cx&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Markus Lidel &lt;Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber &lt;wein@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: blk_rq_[cur_]_{sectors|bytes}() usage cleanup</title>
<updated>2009-05-11T07:50:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-07T13:24:45+00:00</published>
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With the previous changes, the followings are now guaranteed for all
requests in any valid state.

* blk_rq_sectors() == blk_rq_bytes() &gt;&gt; 9
* blk_rq_cur_sectors() == blk_rq_cur_bytes() &gt;&gt; 9

Clean up accessor usages.  Notable changes are

* nbd,i2o_block: end_all used instead of explicit byte count
* scsi_lib: unnecessary conditional on request type removed

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Markus Lidel &lt;Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;bharrosh@panasas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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With the previous changes, the followings are now guaranteed for all
requests in any valid state.

* blk_rq_sectors() == blk_rq_bytes() &gt;&gt; 9
* blk_rq_cur_sectors() == blk_rq_cur_bytes() &gt;&gt; 9

Clean up accessor usages.  Notable changes are

* nbd,i2o_block: end_all used instead of explicit byte count
* scsi_lib: unnecessary conditional on request type removed

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Markus Lidel &lt;Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;bharrosh@panasas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: convert to pos and nr_sectors accessors</title>
<updated>2009-05-11T07:50:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-07T13:24:39+00:00</published>
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With recent cleanups, there is no place where low level driver
directly manipulates request fields.  This means that the 'hard'
request fields always equal the !hard fields.  Convert all
rq-&gt;sectors, nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors references to
accessors.

While at it, drop superflous blk_rq_pos() &lt; 0 test in swim.c.

[ Impact: use pos and nr_sectors accessors ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com&gt;
Tested-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Tested-by: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;petkovbb@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Moore &lt;Eric.Moore@lsi.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dario Ballabio &lt;ballabio_dario@emc.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: unsik Kim &lt;donari75@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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With recent cleanups, there is no place where low level driver
directly manipulates request fields.  This means that the 'hard'
request fields always equal the !hard fields.  Convert all
rq-&gt;sectors, nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors references to
accessors.

While at it, drop superflous blk_rq_pos() &lt; 0 test in swim.c.

[ Impact: use pos and nr_sectors accessors ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com&gt;
Tested-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Tested-by: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;petkovbb@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Moore &lt;Eric.Moore@lsi.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dario Ballabio &lt;ballabio_dario@emc.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: unsik Kim &lt;donari75@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nbd: don't clear rq-&gt;sector and nr_sectors unnecessarily</title>
<updated>2009-05-11T07:50:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-07T13:24:35+00:00</published>
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There's no reason to clear rq-&gt;sector and nr_sectors after calling
blk_rq_init().  They're guaranteed to be clear.  Drop unnecessary
clearing.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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There's no reason to clear rq-&gt;sector and nr_sectors after calling
blk_rq_init().  They're guaranteed to be clear.  Drop unnecessary
clearing.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nbd: trivial cleanups</title>
<updated>2009-04-03T02:05:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Machek</name>
<email>pavel@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-02T23:58:42+00:00</published>
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Trivial cleanups for nbd: only the return -EIO one really changes code,
and I've verified all the callers (plus 0 == success, 1 == error
convention is really ugly).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Trivial cleanups for nbd: only the return -EIO one really changes code,
and I've verified all the callers (plus 0 == success, 1 == error
convention is really ugly).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nbd: add locking to nbd_ioctl</title>
<updated>2009-04-03T02:05:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Machek</name>
<email>pavel@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-02T23:58:41+00:00</published>
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The code was written to rely on big kernel lock to protect it from races.
It mostly works when interface is not abused.

So this uses tx_lock to protect data structures from concurrent use
between ioctl and worker threads.

Next step will be moving from ioctl to unlocked_ioctl.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing return]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The code was written to rely on big kernel lock to protect it from races.
It mostly works when interface is not abused.

So this uses tx_lock to protect data structures from concurrent use
between ioctl and worker threads.

Next step will be moving from ioctl to unlocked_ioctl.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing return]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nbd: fix I/O hang on disconnected nbds</title>
<updated>2009-02-11T22:25:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Clements</name>
<email>paul.clements@steeleye.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-11T21:04:45+00:00</published>
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Fix a problem that causes I/O to a disconnected (or partially initialized)
nbd device to hang indefinitely.  To reproduce:

# ioctl NBD_SET_SIZE_BLOCKS /dev/nbd23 514048
# dd if=/dev/nbd23 of=/dev/null bs=4096 count=1

...hangs...

This can also occur when an nbd device loses its nbd-client/server
connection.  Although we clear the queue of any outstanding I/Os after the
client/server connection fails, any additional I/Os that get queued later
will hang.

This bug may also be the problem reported in this bug report:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12277

Testing would need to be performed to determine if the two issues are the
same.

This problem was introduced by the new request handling thread code ("NBD:
allow nbd to be used locally", 3/2008), which entered into mainline around
2.6.25.

The fix, which is fairly simple, is to restore the check for lo-&gt;sock
being NULL in do_nbd_request.  This causes I/O to an uninitialized nbd to
immediately fail with an I/O error, as it did prior to the introduction of
this bug.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jon Nelson &lt;jnelson-kernel-bugzilla@jamponi.net&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;		[2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix a problem that causes I/O to a disconnected (or partially initialized)
nbd device to hang indefinitely.  To reproduce:

# ioctl NBD_SET_SIZE_BLOCKS /dev/nbd23 514048
# dd if=/dev/nbd23 of=/dev/null bs=4096 count=1

...hangs...

This can also occur when an nbd device loses its nbd-client/server
connection.  Although we clear the queue of any outstanding I/Os after the
client/server connection fails, any additional I/Os that get queued later
will hang.

This bug may also be the problem reported in this bug report:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12277

Testing would need to be performed to determine if the two issues are the
same.

This problem was introduced by the new request handling thread code ("NBD:
allow nbd to be used locally", 3/2008), which entered into mainline around
2.6.25.

The fix, which is fairly simple, is to restore the check for lo-&gt;sock
being NULL in do_nbd_request.  This causes I/O to an uninitialized nbd to
immediately fail with an I/O error, as it did prior to the introduction of
this bug.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jon Nelson &lt;jnelson-kernel-bugzilla@jamponi.net&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;		[2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>nbd: do not allow two clients at the same time</title>
<updated>2009-01-16T00:39:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Machek</name>
<email>pavel@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-15T21:51:03+00:00</published>
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Two nbd-clients at same time are bad idea, and cause WARN_ON from nbd in
2.6.28-rc7 from sysfs_add_one.  This simply prevents that from happening.

To reproduce:

 cat /dev/zero | head -c 10000000 &gt; /tmp/delme.fstest.fs
 nbd-server 9100 -l /anyone.can.connect &gt; /tmp/delme.fstest.fs &amp;
 sleep 1
 nbd-client localhost 9100 /dev/nd0 &amp;
 nbd-client localhost 9100 /dev/nd0 &amp;

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Two nbd-clients at same time are bad idea, and cause WARN_ON from nbd in
2.6.28-rc7 from sysfs_add_one.  This simply prevents that from happening.

To reproduce:

 cat /dev/zero | head -c 10000000 &gt; /tmp/delme.fstest.fs
 nbd-server 9100 -l /anyone.can.connect &gt; /tmp/delme.fstest.fs &amp;
 sleep 1
 nbd-client localhost 9100 /dev/nd0 &amp;
 nbd-client localhost 9100 /dev/nd0 &amp;

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nbd: tell the block layer that it is not a rotational device</title>
<updated>2008-12-29T07:29:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-31T09:06:37+00:00</published>
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Then we can get rid of that manual elevator type fiddling.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Then we can get rid of that manual elevator type fiddling.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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