Prepare for proper error handling in add_disk.
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
[hch: split from a larger patch]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210818144542.19305-9-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Refactor disk_check_events() and move some code into disk_event_uevent().
Then add disk_force_media_change(), a helper which will be used by
devices to force issuing a DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE event.
Co-developed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210712230530.29323-6-mcroce@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Associating uevents with block devices in userspace is difficult and racy:
the uevent netlink socket is lossy, and on slow and overloaded systems
has a very high latency.
Block devices do not have exclusive owners in userspace, any process can
set one up (e.g. loop devices). Moreover, device names can be reused
(e.g. loop0 can be reused again and again). A userspace process setting
up a block device and watching for its events cannot thus reliably tell
whether an event relates to the device it just set up or another earlier
instance with the same name.
Being able to set a UUID on a loop device would solve the race conditions.
But it does not allow to derive orderings from uevents: if you see a
uevent with a UUID that does not match the device you are waiting for,
you cannot tell whether it's because the right uevent has not arrived yet,
or it was already sent and you missed it. So you cannot tell whether you
should wait for it or not.
Associating a unique, monotonically increasing sequential number to the
lifetime of each block device, which can be retrieved with an ioctl
immediately upon setting it up, allows to solve the race conditions with
uevents, and also allows userspace processes to know whether they should
wait for the uevent they need or if it was dropped and thus they should
move on.
Additionally, increment the disk sequence number when the media change,
i.e. on DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE event.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210712230530.29323-2-mcroce@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add the events attributes to the disk_attrs array, which ensures they are
added by the driver core when the device is created rather than adding
them after the device has been added, which is racy versus uevents and
requires more boilerplate code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210624073843.251178-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Move the code for handling disk events from genhd.c into a new file
as it isn't very related to the rest of the file while at the same
time requiring lots of forward declarations.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210624073843.251178-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
