[X/B/D/E/F][PATCH 0/1] bcache: fix oops for block size > page size

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira]

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867916

This is not high priority, as the regression surface
is limited by user-specific configuration; they will
be provided w/ test kernel builds for the time being.
Please review/fix when convenient.

[Impact]

 * Users of bcache who manually specified a block size
   greater than the page size when creating the device
   with 'make-bcache' started to hit a kernel BUG/oops
   after kernel upgrades.  (This is not widely used.)

 * The issue has been exposed with commit ad6bf88a6c19
   ("block: fix an integer overflow in logical block size")
   because it increased the range of values accepted as
   logical block size, which used to overflow to zero,
   and thus receive a default of 512 via block layer.

 * The issue existed previously, but with fewer values
   exposed (e.g. 8k, 16k, 32k); the regression reports
   happened with larger values (512k) for RAID stripes.

[Fix]

 * The upstream commit dcacbc1242c7 ("bcache: check and
   adjust logical block size for backing devices") checks
   the block size and adjusts it if needed, to the value
   of the underlying device's logical block size.

 * It is merged as of v5.8-rcN, and sent to v5.7 stable.

[Test Case]

 * Run make-bcache with block size greater than page size.
   $ sudo make-bcache --bdev $DEV --block 8k

 * Expected results: bcache device registered; no BUG/oops.
 * Detailed steps on LP bug comment.

[Regression Potential]

 * Restricted to users who specify a bcache block size
   greater than page size.

 * Regressions could theoretically manifest on bcache
   device probe/register, if the underlying device's
   logical block size for whatever triggers issues not
   seen previously with the overflow/default 512 bytes.

[Other Info]

 * Unstable has the patch on both master and master-5.7.
 * Groovy should get it on rebase.

Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (1):
  bcache: check and adjust logical block size for backing devices

 drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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