When running a disconnect torture test I noticed that sometimes we would
crash with a negative ref count on our queue. This was because we were
ending the same request twice. Turns out we were racing with
NBD_CLEAR_SOCK clearing the requests as well as the teardown of the
device clearing the requests. So instead make the ioctl only shutdown
the sockets and make it so that we only ever run nbd_clear_que from the
device teardown.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Provide a mechanism to notify userspace that there's been a link problem
on a NBD device. This will allow userspace to re-establish a connection
and provide the new socket to the device without disrupting the device.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We want to be able to reconnect dead connections to existing block
devices, so add a reconfigure netlink command. We will also allow users
to change their timeout on the fly, but everything else will require a
disconnect and reconnect. You won't be able to add more connections
either, simply replace dead connections with new more lively
connections.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The existing ioctl interface for configuring NBD devices is a bit
cumbersome and hard to extend. The other problem is we leave a
userspace app sitting in it's syscall until the device disconnects,
which is less than ideal.
This patch introduces a netlink interface for adding and disconnecting
nbd devices. This has the benefits of being easily extendable without
breaking older userspace applications, and allows us to configure a nbd
device without leaving a userspace app sitting waiting for the device to
disconnect.
With this interface we also gain the ability to configure more devices
than are preallocated at insmod time. We also have gained the ability
to not specify a particular device and be provided one for us so that
userspace doesn't need to find a free device to configure.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
In preparation for the upcoming netlink interface we need to not rely on
already having the bdev for the NBD device we are doing operations on.
Instead of passing the bdev around, just use it in places where we know
we already have the bdev.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
In order to properly refcount the various aspects of a NBD device we
need to separate out the configuration elements of the nbd device. The
configuration of a NBD device has a different lifetime from the actual
device, so it doesn't make sense to bundle these two concepts. Add a
config_refs to keep track of the configuration structure, that way we
can be sure that we never access it when we've torn down the device.
Add a new nbd_config structure to hold all of the transient
configuration information. Finally create this when we open the device
so that it is in place when we start to configure the device. This has
a nice side-effect of fixing a long standing problem where you could end
up with a half-configured nbd device that needed to be "disconnected" in
order to be usable again. Now once we close our device the
configuration will be discarded.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently if we have multiple connections and one of them goes down we will tear
down the whole device. However there's no reason we need to do this as we
could have other connections that are working fine. Deal with this by keeping
track of the state of the different connections, and if we lose one we mark it
as dead and send all IO destined for that socket to one of the other healthy
sockets. Any outstanding requests that were on the dead socket will timeout and
be re-submitted properly.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
When adding a new socket we look it up and then try to add it to our
configuration. If any of those steps fail we need to make sure we put
the socket so we don't leak them.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
It is not safe for one thread to modify the ->flags
of another thread as there is no locking that can protect
the update.
So tsk_restore_flags(), which takes a task pointer and modifies
the flags, is an invitation to do the wrong thing.
All current users pass "current" as the task, so no developers have
accepted that invitation. It would be best to ensure it remains
that way.
So rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags() and don't
pass in a task_struct pointer. Always operate on current->flags.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can
kill this hack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We've added a considerable amount of fixes for stalls and issues
with the blk-mq scheduling in the 4.11 series since forking
off the for-4.12/block branch. We need to do improvements on
top of that for 4.12, so pull in the previous fixes to make
our lives easier going forward.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Constify all instances of blk_mq_ops, as they are never modified.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
When a filesystem is mounted on a nbd device and on a disconnect, because
of kill_bdev(), and resetting bdev size to zero, buffer_head mappings are
getting destroyed under mounted filesystem.
After a bdev size reset(i.e bdev->bd_inode->i_size = 0) on a disconnect,
followed by a sys_umount(),
generic_shutdown_super()->...
->__sync_blockdev()->...
-blkdev_writepages()->...
->do_invalidatepage()->...
-discard_buffer() is discarding superblock buffer_head assumed
to be in mapped state by ext4_commit_super().
[mlin: ported to 4.11-rc2]
Signed-off-by: Ratna Manoj Bolla <manoj.br@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We can't just set the timeout on the tagset, we have to set it on the
queue as it would have been setup already at this point.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We've been relying on the block layer to assume rq->errors being set
translates into -EIO. I noticed in testing that sometimes this isn't
true, and really there's not much of a reason to have a counter instead
of just using -EIO. So set it properly so we don't leak random numbers
to unsuspecting victims.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We can submit IO in a processes context, which means there can be
pending signals. This isn't a fatal error for NBD, but it does require
some finesse. If the signal happens before we transmit anything then we
are ok, just requeue the request and carry on. However if we've done a
partial transmit we can't allow anything else to be transmitted on this
socket until we transmit the remaining part of the request. Deal with
this by keeping track of how much we've sent for the current request,
and if we get an ERESTARTSYS during any part of our transmission save
the state of that request and requeue the IO. If anybody tries to
submit a request that isn't our pending request then requeue that
request until we are able to service the one that is pending.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
"A collection of fixes for this merge window, either fixes for existing
issues, or parts that were waiting for acks to come in. This pull
request contains:
- Allocation of nvme queues on the right node from Shaohua.
This was ready long before the merge window, but waiting on an ack
from Bjorn on the PCI bit. Now that we have that, the three patches
can go in.
- Two fixes for blk-mq-sched with nvmeof, which uses hctx specific
request allocations. This caused an oops. One part from Sagi, one
part from Omar.
- A loop partition scan deadlock fix from Omar, fixing a regression
in this merge window.
- A three-patch series from Keith, closing up a hole on clearing out
requests on shutdown/resume.
- A stable fix for nbd from Josef, fixing a leak of sockets.
- Two fixes for a regression in this window from Jan, fixing a
problem with one of his earlier patches dealing with queue vs bdi
life times.
- A fix for a regression with virtio-blk, causing an IO stall if
scheduling is used. From me.
- A fix for an io context lock ordering problem. From me"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()
blk-mq: ensure that bd->last is always set correctly
block: don't call ioc_exit_icq() with the queue lock held for blk-mq
block: Initialize bd_bdi on inode initialization
loop: fix LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN hang
nvme: Complete all stuck requests
blk-mq: Provide freeze queue timeout
blk-mq: Export blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait
nbd: stop leaking sockets
blk-mq: move update of tags->rqs to __blk_mq_alloc_request()
blk-mq: kill blk_mq_set_alloc_data()
blk-mq: make blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx() allocate a scheduler request
blk-mq-sched: Allocate sched reserved tags as specified in the original queue tagset
nvme: allocate nvme_queue in correct node
PCI: add an API to get node from vector
blk-mq: allocate blk_mq_tags and requests in correct node
Pull vfs sendmsg updates from Al Viro:
"More sendmsg work.
This is a fairly separate isolated stuff (there's a continuation
around lustre, but that one was too late to soak in -next), thus the
separate pull request"
* 'work.sendmsg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
ncpfs: switch to sock_sendmsg()
ncpfs: don't mess with manually advancing iovec on send
ncpfs: sendmsg does *not* bugger iovec these days
ceph_tcp_sendpage(): use ITER_BVEC sendmsg
afs_send_pages(): use ITER_BVEC
rds: remove dead code
ceph: switch to sock_recvmsg()
usbip_recv(): switch to sock_recvmsg()
iscsi_target: deal with short writes on the tx side
[nbd] pass iov_iter to nbd_xmit()
[nbd] switch sock_xmit() to sock_{send,recv}msg()
[drbd] use sock_sendmsg()
This was introduced in the multi-connection patch, we've been leaking
socket's ever since.
Fixes: 9561a7a ("nbd: add multi-connection support")
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If we fail to register the blockdev we need to make sure to destroy the
recv workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We noticed when trying to do O_DIRECT to an export on the server side
that we were getting requests smaller than the 4k sectorsize of the
device. This is because the client isn't setting the logical and
physical blocksizes properly for the underlying device. Fix this up by
setting the queue blocksizes and then calling bd_set_size.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Break the ioctl handling out into helper functions, some of these things
are getting pretty big and unwieldy.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
To prepare for dynamically adding new nbd devices to the system switch
from using an array for the nbd devices and instead use an idr. This
copies what loop does for keeping track of its devices.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Since we are in the memory reclaim path we need our recv work to be on a
workqueue that has WQ_MEM_RECLAIM set so we can avoid deadlocks. Also
set WQ_HIGHPRI since we are in the completion path for IO.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of keeping two levels of indirection for requests types, fold it
all into the operations. The little caveat here is that previously
cmd_type only applied to struct request, while the request and bio op
fields were set to plain REQ_OP_READ/WRITE even for passthrough
operations.
Instead this patch adds new REQ_OP_* for SCSI passthrough and driver
private requests, althought it has to add two for each so that we
can communicate the data in/out nature of the request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This is where we do the rest of the request handling, which will
become much simpler soon, too.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Disconnects don't use block layer requests these days, so all handling
of private requests is dead code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
A user noticed that write performance was horrible over loopback and we
traced it to an inversion of when we need to set MSG_MORE. It should be
set when we have more bvec's to send, not when we are on the last bvec.
This patch made the test go from 20 iops to 78k iops.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Fixes: 429a787be6 ("nbd: fix use-after-free of rq/bio in the xmit path")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Additionally, don't assign directly to disk->queue, otherwise
blk_put_queue (called via put_disk) will choke (panic) on the errno
stored there.
Bug found by code inspection after Omar found a similar issue in
virtio_blk. Compile-tested only.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:
PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)
to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.
Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While doing stress tests we noticed that we'd get a lot of dmesg spam if
we suddenly disconnected the nbd device out of band. Rate limit the
messages in the io path in order to deal with this.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If an app exits before running NBD_DO_IT but after adding sockets we can
end up not being allowed to do a new nbd device. Fix this by making
NBD_CLEAR_SOCK reset the setup_task.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We have this:
ERROR: "__aeabi_ldivmod" [drivers/block/nbd.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "__divdi3" [drivers/block/nbd.ko] undefined!
nbd.c:(.text+0x247c72): undefined reference to `__divdi3'
due to a recent commit, that did 64-bit division. Use the proper
divider function so that 32-bit compiles don't break.
Fixes: ef77b51524 ("nbd: use loff_t for blocksize and nbd_set_size args")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If we have large devices (say like the 40t drive I was trying to test with) we
will end up overflowing the int arguments to nbd_set_size and not get the right
size for our device. Fix this by using loff_t everywhere so I don't have to
think about this again. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Multiple paths don't set it properly, ensure that we do.
Fixes: 9561a7ade0 ("nbd: add multi-connection support")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
NBD can become contended on its single connection. We have to serialize all
writes and we can only process one read response at a time. Fix this by
allowing userspace to provide multiple connections to a single nbd device. This
coupled with block-mq drastically increases performance in multi-process cases.
Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
For writes, we can get a completion in while we're still iterating
the request and bio chain. If that happens, we're reading freed
memory and we can crash.
Break out after the last segment and avoid having the iterator
read freed memory.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull blk-mq irq/cpu mapping updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the block-irq topic branch for 4.9-rc. It's mostly from
Christoph, and it allows drivers to specify their own mappings, and
more importantly, to share the blk-mq mappings with the IRQ affinity
mappings. It's a good step towards making this work better out of the
box"
* 'for-4.9/block-irq' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
blk_mq: linux/blk-mq.h does not include all the headers it depends on
blk-mq: kill unused blk_mq_create_mq_map()
blk-mq: get rid of the cpumask in struct blk_mq_tags
nvme: remove the post_scan callout
nvme: switch to use pci_alloc_irq_vectors
blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for PCI device
blk-mq: allow the driver to pass in a queue mapping
blk-mq: remove ->map_queue
blk-mq: only allocate a single mq_map per tag_set
blk-mq: don't redistribute hardware queues on a CPU hotplug event
We take a mutex when sending commands and send stuff over the network, we need
to have queue_rq called asynchronously.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Fixes: fd8383fd88 ("nbd: convert to blkmq")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of rolling our own timer, just utilize the blk mq req timeout and do the
disconnect if any of our commands timeout.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
In preparation for some future changes, change a few of the state bools over to
normal bits to set/clear properly.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We hit a warning when shutting down the nbd connection because we have irq's
disabled. We don't really need to do the shutdown under the lock, just clear
the nbd->sock. So do the shutdown outside of the irq. This gets rid of the
warning.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This moves NBD over to using blkmq, which allows us to get rid of the NBD
wide queue lock and the async submit kthread. We will start with 1 hw
queue for now, but I plan to add multiple tcp connection support in the
future and we'll fix how we set the hwqueue's.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Quentin ran into this bug:
WARNING: CPU: 64 PID: 10085 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x65/0x80
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/block/nbd3/pid'
Modules linked in: nbd
CPU: 64 PID: 10085 Comm: qemu-nbd Tainted: G D 4.6.0+ #7
0000000000000000 ffff8820330bba68 ffffffff814b8791 ffff8820330bbac8
0000000000000000 ffff8820330bbab8 ffffffff810d04ab ffff8820330bbaa8
0000001f00000296 0000000000017681 ffff8810380bf000 ffffffffa0001790
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff814b8791>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x6c
[<ffffffff810d04ab>] __warn+0xdb/0x100
[<ffffffff810d0574>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x44/0x50
[<ffffffff81218c65>] sysfs_warn_dup+0x65/0x80
[<ffffffff81218a02>] sysfs_add_file_mode_ns+0x172/0x180
[<ffffffff81218a35>] sysfs_create_file_ns+0x25/0x30
[<ffffffff81594a76>] device_create_file+0x36/0x90
[<ffffffffa0000e8d>] __nbd_ioctl+0x32d/0x9b0 [nbd]
[<ffffffff814cc8e8>] ? find_next_bit+0x18/0x20
[<ffffffff810f7c29>] ? select_idle_sibling+0xe9/0x120
[<ffffffff810f6cd7>] ? __enqueue_entity+0x67/0x70
[<ffffffff810f9bf0>] ? enqueue_task_fair+0x630/0xe20
[<ffffffff810efa76>] ? resched_curr+0x36/0x70
[<ffffffff810f0078>] ? check_preempt_curr+0x78/0x90
[<ffffffff810f00a2>] ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x12/0x80
[<ffffffff810f01b1>] ? ttwu_do_activate.constprop.86+0x61/0x70
[<ffffffff810f0c15>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x185/0x2d0
[<ffffffff810f0d6d>] ? default_wake_function+0xd/0x10
[<ffffffff81105471>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x11/0x40
[<ffffffffa0001577>] nbd_ioctl+0x67/0x94 [nbd]
[<ffffffff814ac0fd>] blkdev_ioctl+0x14d/0x940
[<ffffffff811b0da2>] ? put_pipe_info+0x22/0x60
[<ffffffff811d96cc>] block_ioctl+0x3c/0x40
[<ffffffff811ba08d>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x8d/0x5e0
[<ffffffff811aa329>] ? ____fput+0x9/0x10
[<ffffffff810e9092>] ? task_work_run+0x72/0x90
[<ffffffff811ba627>] SyS_ioctl+0x47/0x80
[<ffffffff8185f5df>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x17/0x93
---[ end trace 7899b295e4f850c8 ]---
It seems fairly obvious that device_create_file() is not being protected
from being run concurrently on the same nbd.
Quentin found the following relevant commits:
1a2ad21 nbd: add locking to nbd_ioctl
90b8f28 [PATCH] end of methods switch: remove the old ones
d4430d6 [PATCH] beginning of methods conversion
08f8585 [PATCH] move block_device_operations to blkdev.h
It would seem that the race was introduced in the process of moving nbd
from BKL to unlocked ioctls.
By setting nbd->task_recv while the mutex is held, we can prevent other
processes from running concurrently (since nbd->task_recv is also checked
while the mutex is held).
Reported-and-tested-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
- the big change is the cleanup from Mike Christie, cleaning up our
uses of command types and modified flags. This is what will throw
some merge conflicts
- regression fix for the above for btrfs, from Vincent
- following up to the above, better packing of struct request from
Christoph
- a 2038 fix for blktrace from Arnd
- a few trivial/spelling fixes from Bart Van Assche
- a front merge check fix from Damien, which could cause issues on
SMR drives
- Atari partition fix from Gabriel
- convert cfq to highres timers, since jiffies isn't granular enough
for some devices these days. From Jan and Jeff
- CFQ priority boost fix idle classes, from me
- cleanup series from Ming, improving our bio/bvec iteration
- a direct issue fix for blk-mq from Omar
- fix for plug merging not involving the IO scheduler, like we do for
other types of merges. From Tahsin
- expose DAX type internally and through sysfs. From Toshi and Yigal
* 'for-4.8/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (76 commits)
block: Fix front merge check
block: do not merge requests without consulting with io scheduler
block: Fix spelling in a source code comment
block: expose QUEUE_FLAG_DAX in sysfs
block: add QUEUE_FLAG_DAX for devices to advertise their DAX support
Btrfs: fix comparison in __btrfs_map_block()
block: atari: Return early for unsupported sector size
Doc: block: Fix a typo in queue-sysfs.txt
cfq-iosched: Charge at least 1 jiffie instead of 1 ns
cfq-iosched: Fix regression in bonnie++ rewrite performance
cfq-iosched: Convert slice_resid from u64 to s64
block: Convert fifo_time from ulong to u64
blktrace: avoid using timespec
block/blk-cgroup.c: Declare local symbols static
block/bio-integrity.c: Add #include "blk.h"
block/partition-generic.c: Remove a set-but-not-used variable
block: bio: kill BIO_MAX_SIZE
cfq-iosched: temporarily boost queue priority for idle classes
block: drbd: avoid to use BIO_MAX_SIZE
block: bio: remove BIO_MAX_SECTORS
...
We were passing in &nbd for the private data in debugfs_create_file() for the
flags entry. We expect it to just be nbd, fix this so we get proper output from
this debugfs entry.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This adds a REQ_OP_FLUSH operation that is sent to request_fn
based drivers by the block layer's flush code, instead of
sending requests with the request->cmd_flags REQ_FLUSH bit set.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The req operation REQ_OP is separated from the rq_flag_bits
definition. This converts the block layer drivers to
use req_op to get the op from the request struct.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The do_div() macro now checks its arguments for the correct type,
and refuses anything other than u64, so we get a warning about
nbd_ioctl passing in an loff_t:
drivers/block/nbd.c: In function '__nbd_ioctl':
drivers/block/nbd.c:757:77: error: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [-Werror]
This changes the nbd code to use div_s64() instead, which takes
a signed argument.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fixes: 37091fdd83 ("nbd: Create size change events for userspace")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The userspace needs to know when nbd devices are ready for use.
Currently no events are created for the userspace which doesn't work for
systemd.
See the discussion here: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/358
This patch uses a central point to setup the nbd-internal sizes. A ioctl
to set a size does not lead to a visible size change. The size of the
block device will be kept at 0 until nbd is connected. As soon as it
connects, the size will be changed to the real value and a uevent is
created. When disconnecting, the blockdevice is set to 0 size and
another uevent is generated.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Make the "Attempted send on closed socket" error messages generated in
nbd_request_handler() ratelimited.
When the nbd socket is shutdown, the nbd_request_handler() function emits
an error message for every request remaining in its queue. If the queue
is large, this will spam a large amount of messages to the log. There's
no need for a separate error message for each request, so this patch
ratelimits it.
In the specific case this was found, the system was virtual and the error
messages were logged to the serial port, which overwhelmed it.
Fixes: 4d48a542b4 ("nbd: fix I/O hang on disconnected nbds")
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <dan.streetman@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
nbd changes properties of the blockdevice depending on flags that were
received. This patch moves this flag parsing into a separate function
nbd_parse_flags().
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Group all variables that are reset after a disconnect into reset
functions. This patch adds two of these functions, nbd_reset() and
nbd_bdev_reset().
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
It may be useful to know in the client that a connection timed out. The
current code returns success for a timeout.
This patch reports the error code -ETIMEDOUT for a timeout.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
As discussed on the mailing list, the usage of signals for timeout
handling has a lot of potential issues. The nbd driver used for some
time signals for timeouts. These signals where able to get the threads
out of the blocking socket operations.
This patch removes all signal usage and uses a socket shutdown instead.
The socket descriptor itself is cleared later when the whole nbd device
is closed.
The tasks_lock is removed as we do not depend on this anymore. Instead
a new lock for the socket is introduced so we can safely work with the
socket in the timeout handler outside of the two main threads.
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Static checker complains about the implemented error handling. It is
indeed wrong. We don't care about the return values of created debugfs
files.
We only have to check the return values of created dirs for NULL
pointer. If we use a null pointer as parent directory for files, this
may lead to debugfs files in wrong places.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
1. Rename dequeue_signal_lock() to kernel_dequeue_signal(). This
matches another "for kthreads only" kernel_sigaction() helper.
2. Remove the "tsk" and "mask" arguments, they are always current
and current->blocked. And it is simply wrong if tsk != current.
3. We could also remove the 3rd "siginfo_t *info" arg but it looks
potentially useful. However we can simplify the callers if we
change kernel_dequeue_signal() to accept info => NULL.
4. Remove _irqsave, it is never called from atomic context.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The timeout handling introduced in
7e2893a16d (nbd: Fix timeout detection)
introduces a race condition which may lead to killing of tasks that are
not in nbd context anymore. This was not observed or reproducable yet.
This patch adds locking to critical use of task_recv and task_send to
avoid killing tasks that already left the NBD thread functions. This
lock is only acquired if a timeout occures or the nbd device
starts/stops.
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fixes: 7e2893a16d ("nbd: Fix timeout detection")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The flags variable is used as u32 variable. This patch changes the type
to be u32.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This patch renames functions so that it is clear what the function does.
Otherwise it is not directly understandable what for example 'do_it' means.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add some debugfs files that help to understand the internal state of
NBD. This exports the different sizes, flags, tasks and so on.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This patch uses nbd->task_recv to determine the value of the previously
used variable 'pid' for sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This message was a warning without a reason. This patch moves it into
nbd_clear_que and transforms it to a debug message.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead of a variable 'harderror' we can simply try to correctly
propagate errors to the userspace.
This patch removes the harderror variable and passes errors through
error pointers and nbd_do_it back to the userspace.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This patch restructures sock_shutdown to avoid having the main code path
in an if block.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Move the conditional lock from sock_shutdown into the surrounding code.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
At the moment the nbd timeout just detects hanging tcp operations. This
is not enough to detect a hanging or bad connection as expected of a
timeout.
This patch redesigns the timeout detection to include some more cases.
The timeout is now in relation to replies from the server. If the server
does not send replies within the timeout the connection will be shut
down.
The patch adds a continous timer 'timeout_timer' that is setup in one of
two cases:
- The request list is empty and we are sending the first request out to
the server. We want to have a reply within the given timeout,
otherwise we consider the connection to be dead.
- A server response was received. This means the server is still
communicating with us. The timer is reset to the timeout value.
The timer is not stopped if the list becomes empty. It will just trigger
a timeout which will directly leave the handling routine again as the
request list is empty.
The whole patch does not use any additional explicit locking. The
list_empty() calls are safe to be used concurrently. The timer is locked
internally as we just use mod_timer and del_timer_sync().
The patch is based on the idea of Michal Belczyk with a previous
different implementation.
Cc: Michal Belczyk <belczyk@bsd.krakow.pl>
Cc: Hermann Lauer <Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Tested-by: Hermann Lauer <Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Some drivers use it now, others just set the limits field manually.
But in preparation for splitting this into a hard and soft limit,
ensure that they all call the proper function for setting the hw
limit for discards.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
By returning the error code directly, we can avoid the jump label
error_out.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
dprintk has some name collisions with other frameworks and drivers. It
is also not necessary to have these custom debug print filters. Dynamic
debug offers the same amount of filtered debugging.
This patch replaces all dprintks with dev_dbg(). It also removes the
ioctl dprintk which prints the ingoing ioctls which should be
replaceable by strace or similar stuff.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The block subsystem uses loff_t to store the device size. Change the
type for nbd_device bytesize to loff_t.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
kthread_run includes the wake_up_process() call, so instead of
kthread_create() followed by wake_up_process() we can use this macro.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The header is not included anywhere. Remove it and include the private
nbd_device struct in nbd.c.
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
we have already allocated memory for nbd_dev, but we were not
releasing that memory and just returning the error value.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Clear QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM in all block drivers that set
QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT.
Historically, all block devices have automatically made entropy
contributions. But as previously stated in commit e2e1a148 ("block: add
sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributions"):
- On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they
are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they
should contribute to the random pool in the first place.
- Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead.
There are more reliable sources for randomness than non-rotational block
devices. From a security perspective it is better to err on the side of
caution than to allow entropy contributions from unreliable "random"
sources.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Len field is already set to zero, but not the from field which is sent
as 0xfffffffffffffe00. This makes no sense, and may cause confuse
server implementations doing sanity checks (qemu-nbd is an example.)
Signed-off-by: Hani Benhabiles <hani@linux.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@us.sios.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds a mechanism by which we can advance a bio by an arbitrary
number of bytes without modifying the biovec: bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done
indicates the number of bytes completed in the current bvec.
Various driver code still needs to be updated to not refer to the bvec
directly before we can use this for interesting things, like efficient
bio splitting.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net
More prep work for immutable biovecs - with immutable bvecs drivers
won't be able to use the biovec directly, they'll need to use helpers
that take into account bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done.
This updates callers for the new usage without changing the
implementation yet.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com>
Cc: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com>
Cc: support@lsi.com
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Quoc-Son Anh <quoc-sonx.anh@intel.com>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cbe-oss-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: DL-MPTFusionLinux@lsi.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Currently, when a disconnect is requested by the user (via NBD_DISCONNECT
ioctl) the return from NBD_DO_IT is undefined (it is usually one of
several error codes). This means that nbd-client does not know if a
manual disconnect was performed or whether a network error occurred.
Because of this, nbd-client's persist mode (which tries to reconnect after
error, but not after manual disconnect) does not always work correctly.
This change fixes this by causing NBD_DO_IT to always return 0 if a user
requests a disconnect. This means that nbd-client can correctly either
persist the connection (if an error occurred) or disconnect (if the user
requested it).
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The NBD_CLEAR_QUE ioctl has been deprecated for quite some time (its job
is now done by two other ioctls). We should stop trying to make bogus
assertions in it. Also, user-level code should remove calls to
NBD_CLEAR_QUE, ASAP.
Signed-off-by: Michal Belczyk <belczyk@bsd.krakow.pl>
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be
interpreted as format strings. It seems that only md allows arbitrary
strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local
memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0.
CVE-2013-2851
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Raise the default max request size for nbd to 128KB (from 127KB) to get it
4KB aligned. This patch also allows the max request size to be increased
(via /sys/block/nbd<x>/queue/max_sectors_kb) to 32MB.
The patch makes nbd network traffic more efficient by:
- reducing request fragmentation (4KB alignment)
- reducing the number of requests (fewer round trips, less network overhead)
Especially in high latency networks, larger request size can make a dramatic
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Belczyk <belczyk@bsd.krakow.pl>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I just fixed this in "drivers/block/rbd.c" and I noticed that
"drivers/block/nbd.c" has the same problem. Fix a warning issued by
sparse by adding some lockdep annotations to indicate the queue lock gets
dropped (because it's held when do_nbd_request() is called) and
re-acquired within the function.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@us.sios.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pass the read-only flag to set_device_ro, so that it will be visible to
the block layer and in sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are two problems with shutdown in the NBD driver.
1: Receiving the NBD_DISCONNECT ioctl does not sync the filesystem.
This patch adds the sync operation into __nbd_ioctl()'s
NBD_DISCONNECT handler. This is useful because BLKFLSBUF is restricted
to processes that have CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and the NBD client may not
possess it (fsync of the block device does not sync the filesystem,
either).
2: Once we clear the socket we have no guarantee that later reads will
come from the same backing storage.
The patch adds calls to kill_bdev() in __nbd_ioctl()'s socket
clearing code so the page cache is cleaned, lest reads that hit on the
page cache will return stale data from the previously-accessible disk.
Example:
# qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sr0
# file -s /dev/nbd0
/dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.
# qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
# qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sda
# file -s /dev/nbd0
/dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.
While /dev/sda has:
# file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: x86 boot sector; etc.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, the NBD device does not accept flush requests from the Linux
block layer. If the NBD server opened the target with neither O_SYNC nor
O_DSYNC, however, the device will be effectively backed by a writeback
cache. Without issuing flushes properly, operation of the NBD device will
not be safe against power losses.
The NBD protocol has support for both a cache flush command and a FUA
command flag; the server will also pass a flag to note its support for
these features. This patch adds support for the cache flush command and
flag. In the kernel, we receive the flags via the NBD_SET_FLAGS ioctl,
and map NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH to the argument of blk_queue_flush. When the
flag is active the block layer will send REQ_FLUSH requests, which we
translate to NBD_CMD_FLUSH commands.
FUA support is not included in this patch because all free software
servers implement it with a full fdatasync; thus it has no advantage over
supporting flush only. Because I [Paolo] cannot really benchmark it in a
realistic scenario, I cannot tell if it is a good idea or not. It is also
not clear if it is valid for an NBD server to support FUA but not flush.
The Linux block layer gives a warning for this combination, the NBD
protocol documentation says nothing about it.
The patch also fixes a small problem in the handling of flags: nbd->flags
must be cleared at the end of NBD_DO_IT, but the driver was not doing
that. The bug manifests itself as follows. Suppose you two different
client/server pairs to start the NBD device. Suppose also that the first
client supports NBD_SET_FLAGS, and the first server sends
NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH; the second pair instead does neither of these two
things. Before this patch, the second invocation of NBD_DO_IT will use a
stale value of nbd->flags, and the second server will issue an error every
time it receives an NBD_CMD_FLUSH command.
This bug is pre-existing, but it becomes much more important after this
patch; flush failures make the device pretty much unusable, unlike
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
