[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "dm io: reject unsupported DISCARD requests with EOPNOTSUPP" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Mar 2 13:37:42 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    dm io: reject unsupported DISCARD requests with EOPNOTSUPP

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt8.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From d95925291ace6370cba24028a11f0f9de2979b7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong at oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:05:37 -0800
Subject: dm io: reject unsupported DISCARD requests with EOPNOTSUPP

commit 37527b869207ad4c208b1e13967d69b8bba1fbf9 upstream.

I created a dm-raid1 device backed by a device that supports DISCARD
and another device that does NOT support DISCARD with the following
dm configuration:

 #  echo '0 2048 mirror core 1 512 2 /dev/sda 0 /dev/sdb 0' | dmsetup create moo
 # lsblk -D
 NAME         DISC-ALN DISC-GRAN DISC-MAX DISC-ZERO
 sda                 0        4K       1G         0
 `-moo (dm-0)        0        4K       1G         0
 sdb                 0        0B       0B         0
 `-moo (dm-0)        0        4K       1G         0

Notice that the mirror device /dev/mapper/moo advertises DISCARD
support even though one of the mirror halves doesn't.

If I issue a DISCARD request (via fstrim, mount -o discard, or ioctl
BLKDISCARD) through the mirror, kmirrord gets stuck in an infinite
loop in do_region() when it tries to issue a DISCARD request to sdb.
The problem is that when we call do_region() against sdb, num_sectors
is set to zero because q->limits.max_discard_sectors is zero.
Therefore, "remaining" never decreases and the loop never terminates.

To fix this: before entering the loop, check for the combination of
REQ_DISCARD and no discard and return -EOPNOTSUPP to avoid hanging up
the mirror device.

This bug was found by the unfortunate coincidence of pvmove and a
discard operation in the RHEL 6.5 kernel; upstream is also affected.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong at oracle.com>
Acked-by: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-io.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-io.c b/drivers/md/dm-io.c
index db404a0f7e2c..d2a8d64f8526 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-io.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-io.c
@@ -292,6 +292,12 @@ static void do_region(int rw, unsigned region, struct dm_io_region *where,
 	unsigned short logical_block_size = queue_logical_block_size(q);
 	sector_t num_sectors;

+	/* Reject unsupported discard requests */
+	if ((rw & REQ_DISCARD) && !blk_queue_discard(q)) {
+		dec_count(io, region, -EOPNOTSUPP);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * where->count may be zero if rw holds a flush and we need to
 	 * send a zero-sized flush.




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