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<title>dm thin: fix discard corruption</title>
<updated>2013-03-27T02:41:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Thornber</name>
<email>ejt@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2013-03-20T17:21:24+00:00</published>
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commit f046f89a99ccfd9408b94c653374ff3065c7edb3 upstream.

Fix a bug in dm_btree_remove that could leave leaf values with incorrect
reference counts.  The effect of this was that removal of a shared block
could result in the space maps thinking the block was no longer used.
More concretely, if you have a thin device and a snapshot of it, sending
a discard to a shared region of the thin could corrupt the snapshot.

Thinp uses a 2-level nested btree to store it's mappings.  This first
level is indexed by thin device, and the second level by logical
block.

Often when we're removing an entry in this mapping tree we need to
rebalance nodes, which can involve shadowing them, possibly creating a
copy if the block is shared.  If we do create a copy then children of
that node need to have their reference counts incremented.  In this
way reference counts percolate down the tree as shared trees diverge.

The rebalance functions were incrementing the children at the
appropriate time, but they were always assuming the children were
internal nodes.  This meant the leaf values (in our case packed
block/flags entries) were not being incremented.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: bump target version numbers from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit f046f89a99ccfd9408b94c653374ff3065c7edb3 upstream.

Fix a bug in dm_btree_remove that could leave leaf values with incorrect
reference counts.  The effect of this was that removal of a shared block
could result in the space maps thinking the block was no longer used.
More concretely, if you have a thin device and a snapshot of it, sending
a discard to a shared region of the thin could corrupt the snapshot.

Thinp uses a 2-level nested btree to store it's mappings.  This first
level is indexed by thin device, and the second level by logical
block.

Often when we're removing an entry in this mapping tree we need to
rebalance nodes, which can involve shadowing them, possibly creating a
copy if the block is shared.  If we do create a copy then children of
that node need to have their reference counts incremented.  In this
way reference counts percolate down the tree as shared trees diverge.

The rebalance functions were incrementing the children at the
appropriate time, but they were always assuming the children were
internal nodes.  This meant the leaf values (in our case packed
block/flags entries) were not being incremented.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: bump target version numbers from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: fix truncated status strings</title>
<updated>2013-03-20T15:03:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2013-03-01T22:45:44+00:00</published>
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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-&gt;type-&gt;status. If ti-&gt;type-&gt;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-&gt;type-&gt;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 &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - dm_status_fn doesn't take a status_flags parameter
 - Bump the last component of each current version (verified not to
   match any version used in mainline)
 - Drop changes to dm-verity]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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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-&gt;type-&gt;status. If ti-&gt;type-&gt;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-&gt;type-&gt;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 &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - dm_status_fn doesn't take a status_flags parameter
 - Bump the last component of each current version (verified not to
   match any version used in mainline)
 - Drop changes to dm-verity]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm thin: fix memory leak in process_prepared_mapping error paths</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T23:24:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Thornber</name>
<email>ejt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-27T14:08:05+00:00</published>
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commit 905386f82d08f66726912f303f3e6605248c60a3 upstream.

Fix memory leak in process_prepared_mapping by always freeing
the dm_thin_new_mapping structs from the mapping_pool mempool on
the error paths.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 905386f82d08f66726912f303f3e6605248c60a3 upstream.

Fix memory leak in process_prepared_mapping by always freeing
the dm_thin_new_mapping structs from the mapping_pool mempool on
the error paths.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm thin: reduce endio_hook pool size</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T23:24:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alasdair G Kergon</name>
<email>agk@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-27T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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commit 7768ed33ccdc02801c4483fc5682dc66ace14aea upstream.

Reduce the slab size used for the dm_thin_endio_hook mempool.

Allocation has been seen to fail on machines with smaller amounts
of memory due to fragmentation.

  lvm: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0
  device-mapper: table: 253:38: thin-pool: Error creating pool's endio_hook mempool

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 7768ed33ccdc02801c4483fc5682dc66ace14aea upstream.

Reduce the slab size used for the dm_thin_endio_hook mempool.

Allocation has been seen to fail on machines with smaller amounts
of memory due to fragmentation.

  lvm: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0
  device-mapper: table: 253:38: thin-pool: Error creating pool's endio_hook mempool

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>dm thin: reinstate missing mempool_free in cell_release_singleton</title>
<updated>2012-07-04T04:44:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-12T00:43:12+00:00</published>
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commit 03aaae7cdc71bc306888440b1f569d463e917b6d upstream.

Fix a significant memory leak inadvertently introduced during
simplification of cell_release_singleton() in commit
6f94a4c45a6f744383f9f695dde019998db3df55 ("dm thin: fix stacked bi_next
usage").

A cell's hlist_del() must be accompanied by a mempool_free().
Use __cell_release() to do this, like before.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 03aaae7cdc71bc306888440b1f569d463e917b6d upstream.

Fix a significant memory leak inadvertently introduced during
simplification of cell_release_singleton() in commit
6f94a4c45a6f744383f9f695dde019998db3df55 ("dm thin: fix stacked bi_next
usage").

A cell's hlist_del() must be accompanied by a mempool_free().
Use __cell_release() to do this, like before.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm thin: fix stacked bi_next usage</title>
<updated>2012-04-02T16:53:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Thornber</name>
<email>ejt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T17:41:23+00:00</published>
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commit 6f94a4c45a6f744383f9f695dde019998db3df55 upstream.

Avoid using the bi_next field for the holder of a cell when deferring
bios because a stacked device below might change it.  Store the
holder in a new field in struct cell instead.

When a cell is created, the bio that triggered creation (the holder) was
added to the same bio list as subsequent bios.  In some cases we pass
this holder bio directly to devices underneath.  If those devices use
the bi_next field there will be trouble...

This also simplifies some code that had to work out which bio was the
holder.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6f94a4c45a6f744383f9f695dde019998db3df55 upstream.

Avoid using the bi_next field for the holder of a cell when deferring
bios because a stacked device below might change it.  Store the
holder in a new field in struct cell instead.

When a cell is created, the bio that triggered creation (the holder) was
added to the same bio list as subsequent bios.  In some cases we pass
this holder bio directly to devices underneath.  If those devices use
the bi_next field there will be trouble...

This also simplifies some code that had to work out which bio was the
holder.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>dm: add thin provisioning target</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T20:21:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Thornber</name>
<email>thornber@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-31T20:21:18+00:00</published>
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Initial EXPERIMENTAL implementation of device-mapper thin provisioning
with snapshot support.  The 'thin' target is used to create instances of
the virtual devices that are hosted in the 'thin-pool' target.  The
thin-pool target provides data sharing among devices.  This sharing is
made possible using the persistent-data library in the previous patch.

The main highlight of this implementation, compared to the previous
implementation of snapshots, is that it allows many virtual devices to
be stored on the same data volume, simplifying administration and
allowing sharing of data between volumes (thus reducing disk usage).

Another big feature is support for arbitrary depth of recursive
snapshots (snapshots of snapshots of snapshots ...).  The previous
implementation of snapshots did this by chaining together lookup tables,
and so performance was O(depth).  This new implementation uses a single
data structure so we don't get this degradation with depth.

For further information and examples of how to use this, please read
Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;thornber@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Initial EXPERIMENTAL implementation of device-mapper thin provisioning
with snapshot support.  The 'thin' target is used to create instances of
the virtual devices that are hosted in the 'thin-pool' target.  The
thin-pool target provides data sharing among devices.  This sharing is
made possible using the persistent-data library in the previous patch.

The main highlight of this implementation, compared to the previous
implementation of snapshots, is that it allows many virtual devices to
be stored on the same data volume, simplifying administration and
allowing sharing of data between volumes (thus reducing disk usage).

Another big feature is support for arbitrary depth of recursive
snapshots (snapshots of snapshots of snapshots ...).  The previous
implementation of snapshots did this by chaining together lookup tables,
and so performance was O(depth).  This new implementation uses a single
data structure so we don't get this degradation with depth.

For further information and examples of how to use this, please read
Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;thornber@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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