linux-toradex.git/drivers/md/dm-stripe.c, branch v3.4.75

dm: fix truncated status strings

2013-12-08T15:29:43+00:00

commit fd7c092e711ebab55b2688d3859d95dfd0301f73 upstream.

Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting
the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the
buffer.

When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status
calls ti->type->status. If ti->type->status returns non-zero,
retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets
DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG.

However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method
on overflow. Most targets returns always zero.

If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the
table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in
retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it
goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned.

In the current code, the targets behave in the following way:
* dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the
  key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows.
* dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened.
  This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error
  code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow.
* all the other targets always return 0.

This patch changes the ti->type->status function to return void (because
most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in
retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space
completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input

2012-03-28T17:41:26+00:00

Device mapper uses sscanf to convert arguments to numbers. The problem is that
the way we use it ignores additional unmatched characters in the scanned string.

For example, this `if (sscanf(string, "%d", &number) == 1)' will match a number,
but also it will match number with some garbage appended, like "123abc".

As a result, device mapper accepts garbage after some numbers. For example
the command `dmsetup create vg1-new --table "0 16384 linear 254:1bla 34816bla"'
will pass without an error.

This patch fixes all sscanf uses in device mapper. It appends "%c" with
a pointer to a dummy character variable to every sscanf statement.

The construct `if (sscanf(string, "%d%c", &number, &dummy) == 1)' succeeds
only if string is a null-terminated number (optionally preceded by some
whitespace characters). If there is some character appended after the number,
sscanf matches "%c", writes the character to the dummy variable and returns 2.
We check the return value for 1 and consequently reject numbers with some
garbage appended.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm stripe: implement merge method

2011-03-24T13:54:35+00:00

Implement a merge function in the striped target.

When the striped target's underlying devices provide a merge_bvec_fn
(like all DM devices do via dm_merge_bvec) it is important to call down
to them when building a biovec that doesn't span a stripe boundary.

Without the merge method, a striped DM device stacked on DM devices
causes bios with a single page to be submitted which results
in unnecessary overhead that hurts performance.

This change really helps filesystems (e.g. XFS and now ext4) which take
care to assemble larger bios.  By implementing stripe_merge(), DM and the
stripe target no longer undermine the filesystem's work by only allowing
a single page per bio.  Buffered IO sees the biggest improvement
(particularly uncached reads, buffered writes to a lesser degree).  This
is especially so for more capable "enterprise" storage LUNs.

The performance improvement has been measured to be ~12-35% -- when a
reasonable chunk_size is used (e.g. 64K) in conjunction with a stripe
count that is a power of 2.

In contrast, the performance penalty is ~5-7% for the pathological worst
case stripe configuration (small chunk_size with a stripe count that is
not a power of 2).  The reason for this is that stripe_map_sector() is
now called once for every call to dm_merge_bvec().  stripe_map_sector()
will use slower division if stripe count isn't a power of 2.

Signed-off-by: Mustafa Mesanovic 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm stripe: switch from local workqueue to system_wq

2011-01-13T19:59:57+00:00

kstriped only serves sc->kstriped_ws which runs dm_table_event().
This doesn't need to be executed from an ordered workqueue w/ rescuer.
Drop kstriped and use the system_wq instead.  While at it, rename
kstriped_ws to trigger_event so that it's consistent with other dm
modules.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for bio-based dm

2010-09-10T10:35:38+00:00

This patch converts bio-based dm to support REQ_FLUSH/FUA instead of
now deprecated REQ_HARDBARRIER.

* -EOPNOTSUPP handling logic dropped.

* Preflush is handled as before but postflush is dropped and replaced
  with passing down REQ_FUA to member request_queues.  This replaces
  one array wide cache flush w/ member specific FUA writes.

* __split_and_process_bio() now calls __clone_and_map_flush() directly
  for flushes and guarantees all FLUSH bio's going to targets are zero
`  length.

* It's now guaranteed that all FLUSH bio's which are passed onto dm
  targets are zero length.  bio_empty_barrier() tests are replaced
  with REQ_FLUSH tests.

* Empty WRITE_BARRIERs are replaced with WRITE_FLUSHes.

* Dropped unlikely() around REQ_FLUSH tests.  Flushes are not unlikely
  enough to be marked with unlikely().

* Block layer now filters out REQ_FLUSH/FUA bio's if the request_queue
  doesn't support cache flushing.  Advertise REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA
  capability.

* Request based dm isn't converted yet.  dm_init_request_based_queue()
  resets flush support to 0 for now.  To avoid disturbing request
  based dm code, dm->flush_error is added for bio based dm while
  requested based dm continues to use dm->barrier_error.

Lightly tested linear, stripe, raid1, snap and crypt targets.  Please
proceed with caution as I'm not familiar with the code base.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

dm stripe: support discards

2010-08-12T03:14:26+00:00

The DM core will submit a discard bio to the stripe target for each
stripe in a striped DM device.  The stripe target will determine
stripe-specific portions of the supplied bio to be remapped into
individual (at most 'num_discard_requests' extents).  If a given
stripe-specific discard bio doesn't touch a particular stripe the bio
will be dropped.

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

dm stripe: optimize sector division

2010-08-12T03:14:21+00:00

Optimize sector division: If the number of stripes is a power of two,
we can do shift and mask instead of division.

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

dm stripe: move sector translation to a function

2010-08-12T03:14:14+00:00

Move sector to stripe translation into a function.

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

dm: use dm_target_offset macro

2010-08-12T03:14:11+00:00

Use new dm_target_offset() macro to avoid most references to ti->begin
in dm targets.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: rename map_info flush_request to target_request_nr

2010-08-12T03:14:04+00:00

'target_request_nr' is a more generic name that reflects the fact that
it will be used for both flush and discard support.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon