linux-toradex.git/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c, branch v2.6.32-rc3

Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions

2009-09-19T19:50:38+00:00

This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions
for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero,
random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows
non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no
other userspace process applies the expected permissions.

This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm: enable request based option

2009-06-22T09:12:36+00:00

This patch enables request-based dm.

o Request-based dm and bio-based dm coexist, since there are
  some target drivers which are more fitting to bio-based dm.
  Also, there are other bio-based devices in the kernel
  (e.g. md, loop).
  Since bio-based device can't receive struct request,
  there are some limitations on device stacking between
  bio-based and request-based.

                     type of underlying device
                   bio-based      request-based
   ----------------------------------------------
    bio-based         OK                OK
    request-based     --                OK

  The device type is recognized by the queue flag in the kernel,
  so dm follows that.

o The type of a dm device is decided at the first table binding time.
  Once the type of a dm device is decided, the type can't be changed.

o Mempool allocations are deferred to at the table loading time, since
  mempools for request-based dm are different from those for bio-based
  dm and needed mempool type is fixed by the type of table.

o Currently, request-based dm supports only tables that have a single
  target.  To support multiple targets, we need to support request
  splitting or prevent bio/request from spanning multiple targets.
  The former needs lots of changes in the block layer, and the latter
  needs that all target drivers support merge() function.
  Both will take a time.

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda 
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm ioctl: support cookies for udev

2009-06-22T09:12:30+00:00

Add support for passing a 32 bit "cookie" into the kernel with the
DM_SUSPEND, DM_DEV_RENAME and DM_DEV_REMOVE ioctls.  The (unsigned)
value of this cookie is returned to userspace alongside the uevents
issued by these ioctls in the variable DM_COOKIE.

This means the userspace process issuing these ioctls can be notified
by udev after udev has completed any actions triggered.

To minimise the interface extension, we pass the cookie into the
kernel in the event_nr field which is otherwise unused when calling
these ioctls.  Incrementing the version number allows userspace to
determine in advance whether or not the kernel supports the cookie.
If the kernel does support this but userspace does not, there should
be no impact as the new variable will just get ignored.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.

2009-06-16T04:30:25+00:00

This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to
userspace.  It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the
needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm: add integrity support

2009-04-08T23:27:12+00:00

This patch provides support for data integrity passthrough in the device
mapper.

 - If one or more component devices support integrity an integrity
   profile is preallocated for the DM device.

 - If all component devices have compatible profiles the DM device is
   flagged as capable.

 - Handle integrity metadata when splitting and cloning bios.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm table: rework reference counting fix

2009-03-16T17:44:26+00:00

Fix an error introduced in dm-table-rework-reference-counting.patch.

When there is failure after table initialization, we need to use
dm_table_destroy, not dm_table_put, to free the table.

dm_table_put may be used only after dm_table_get.

Cc: Kiyoshi Ueda 
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow 
Reviewed-by: Alasdair G Kergon 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm ioctl: validate name length when renaming

2009-03-16T16:56:01+00:00

When renaming a mapped device validate the length of the new name.

The rename ioctl accepted any correctly-terminated string enclosed
within the data passed from userspace.  The other ioctls enforce a
size limit of DM_NAME_LEN.  If the name is changed and becomes longer
than that, the device can no longer be addressed by name.

Fix it by properly checking for device name length (including
terminating zero).

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz 
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow 
Reviewed-by: Alasdair G Kergon 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm table: rework reference counting

2009-01-06T03:05:10+00:00

Rework table reference counting.

The existing code uses a reference counter. When the last reference is
dropped and the counter reaches zero, the table destructor is called.
Table reference counters are acquired/released from upcalls from other
kernel code (dm_any_congested, dm_merge_bvec, dm_unplug_all).
If the reference counter reaches zero in one of the upcalls, the table
destructor is called from almost random kernel code.

This leads to various problems:
* dm_any_congested being called under a spinlock, which calls the
  destructor, which calls some sleeping function.
* the destructor attempting to take a lock that is already taken by the
  same process.
* stale reference from some other kernel code keeps the table
  constructed, which keeps some devices open, even after successful
  return from "dmsetup remove". This can confuse lvm and prevent closing
  of underlying devices or reusing device minor numbers.

The patch changes reference counting so that the table destructor can be
called only at predetermined places.

The table has always exactly one reference from either mapped_device->map
or hash_cell->new_map. After this patch, this reference is not counted
in table->holders.  A pair of dm_create_table/dm_destroy_table functions
is used for table creation/destruction.

Temporary references from the other code increase table->holders. A pair
of dm_table_get/dm_table_put functions is used to manipulate it.

When the table is about to be destroyed, we wait for table->holders to
reach 0. Then, we call the table destructor.  We use active waiting with
msleep(1), because the situation happens rarely (to one user in 5 years)
and removing the device isn't performance-critical task: the user doesn't
care if it takes one tick more or not.

This way, the destructor is called only at specific points
(dm_table_destroy function) and the above problems associated with lazy
destruction can't happen.

Finally remove the temporary protection added to dm_any_congested().

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm ioctl: allow dm_copy_name_and_uuid to return only one field

2009-01-06T03:05:04+00:00

Allow NULL buffer in dm_copy_name_and_uuid if you only want to return one of
the fields.

(Required by a following patch that adds these fields to sysfs.)

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz 
Reviewed-by: Alasdair G Kergon 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

[PATCH] introduce fmode_t, do annotations

2008-10-21T11:47:06+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro