Some asynchronous cipher implementations may use DMA. The stack may
be mapped in the vmalloc area that doesn't support DMA. Therefore,
the cipher request and initialization vector shouldn't be on the
stack.
Fix this by allocating the request and iv with kmalloc.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly.
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
- A DM core fix for a race during device destruction that could result
in a BUG_ON.
- A stable@ fix for a DM cache race condition that could lead to data
corruption when operating in writeback mode (writethrough is default)
- Various DM cache cleanups and improvements
- Add DAX support to the DM log-writes target
- A fix for the DM zoned target's ability to deal with the last zone of
the drive being smaller than all others.
- A stable@ DM crypt and DM integrity fix for a negative check that was
to restrictive (prevented slab debug with XFS ontop of DM crypt from
working).
- A DM raid target fix for a panic that can occur when forcing a raid to
sync.
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Merge tag 'for-4.15/dm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
- a few conversions from atomic_t to ref_count_t
- a DM core fix for a race during device destruction that could result
in a BUG_ON
- a stable@ fix for a DM cache race condition that could lead to data
corruption when operating in writeback mode (writethrough is default)
- various DM cache cleanups and improvements
- add DAX support to the DM log-writes target
- a fix for the DM zoned target's ability to deal with the last zone of
the drive being smaller than all others
- a stable@ DM crypt and DM integrity fix for a negative check that was
to restrictive (prevented slab debug with XFS ontop of DM crypt from
working)
- a DM raid target fix for a panic that can occur when forcing a raid
to sync
* tag 'for-4.15/dm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (25 commits)
dm cache: lift common migration preparation code to alloc_migration()
dm cache: remove usused deferred_cells member from struct cache
dm cache policy smq: allocate cache blocks in order
dm cache policy smq: change max background work from 10240 to 4096 blocks
dm cache background tracker: limit amount of background work that may be issued at once
dm cache policy smq: take origin idle status into account when queuing writebacks
dm cache policy smq: handle races with queuing background_work
dm raid: fix panic when attempting to force a raid to sync
dm integrity: allow unaligned bv_offset
dm crypt: allow unaligned bv_offset
dm: small cleanup in dm_get_md()
dm: fix race between dm_get_from_kobject() and __dm_destroy()
dm: allocate struct mapped_device with kvzalloc
dm zoned: ignore last smaller runt zone
dm space map metadata: use ARRAY_SIZE
dm log writes: add support for DAX
dm log writes: add support for inline data buffers
dm cache: simplify get_per_bio_data() by removing data_size argument
dm cache: remove all obsolete writethrough-specific code
dm cache: submit writethrough writes in parallel to origin and cache
...
When slub_debug is enabled kmalloc returns unaligned memory. XFS uses
this unaligned memory for its buffers (if an unaligned buffer crosses a
page, XFS frees it and allocates a full page instead - see the function
xfs_buf_allocate_memory).
dm-integrity checks if bv_offset is aligned on page size and this check
fail with slub_debug and XFS.
Fix this bug by removing the bv_offset check, leaving only the check for
bv_len.
Fixes: 7eada909bf ("dm: add integrity target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Reported-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@sysophe.eu>
Reviewed-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't currently harmful.
However, for some features it is necessary to instrument reads and
writes separately, which is not possible with ACCESS_ONCE(). This
distinction is critical to correct operation.
It's possible to transform the bulk of kernel code using the Coccinelle
script below. However, this doesn't pick up some uses, including those
in dm-integrity.c. As a preparatory step, this patch converts the driver
to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() consistently.
At the same time, this patch adds the missing include of
<linux/compiler.h> necessary for the {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() definitions.
----
virtual patch
@ depends on patch @
expression E1, E2;
@@
- ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2
+ WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2)
@ depends on patch @
expression E;
@@
- ACCESS_ONCE(E)
+ READ_ONCE(E)
----
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
- Constify a few variables in DM core and DM integrity
- Add bufio optimization and checksum failure accounting to DM integrity
- Fix DM integrity to avoid checking integrity of failed reads
- Fix DM integrity to use init_completion
- A couple DM log-writes target fixes
- Simplify DAX flushing by eliminating the unnecessary flush abstraction
that was stood up for DM's use.
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Merge tag 'for-4.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
- Some request-based DM core and DM multipath fixes and cleanups
- Constify a few variables in DM core and DM integrity
- Add bufio optimization and checksum failure accounting to DM
integrity
- Fix DM integrity to avoid checking integrity of failed reads
- Fix DM integrity to use init_completion
- A couple DM log-writes target fixes
- Simplify DAX flushing by eliminating the unnecessary flush
abstraction that was stood up for DM's use.
* tag 'for-4.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
dax: remove the pmem_dax_ops->flush abstraction
dm integrity: use init_completion instead of COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK
dm integrity: make blk_integrity_profile structure const
dm integrity: do not check integrity for failed read operations
dm log writes: fix >512b sectorsize support
dm log writes: don't use all the cpu while waiting to log blocks
dm ioctl: constify ioctl lookup table
dm: constify argument arrays
dm integrity: count and display checksum failures
dm integrity: optimize writing dm-bufio buffers that are partially changed
dm rq: do not update rq partially in each ending bio
dm rq: make dm-sq requeuing behavior consistent with dm-mq behavior
dm mpath: complain about unsupported __multipath_map_bio() return values
dm mpath: avoid that building with W=1 causes gcc 7 to complain about fall-through
The new lockdep support for completions causeed the stack usage
in dm-integrity to explode, in case of write_journal from 504 bytes
to 1120 (using arm gcc-7.1.1):
drivers/md/dm-integrity.c: In function 'write_journal':
drivers/md/dm-integrity.c:827:1: error: the frame size of 1120 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
The problem is that not only the size of 'struct completion' grows
significantly, but we end up having multiple copies of it on the stack
when we assign it from a local variable after the initial declaration.
COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK() is the right thing to use when we
want to declare and initialize a completion on the stack. However,
this driver doesn't do that and instead initializes the completion
just before it is used.
In this case, init_completion() does the same thing more efficiently,
and drops the stack usage for the function above down to 496 bytes.
While the other functions in this file are not bad enough to cause
a warning, they benefit equally from the change, so I do the change
across the entire file. In the one place where we reuse a completion,
I picked the cheaper reinit_completion() over init_completion().
Fixes: cd8084f91c ("locking/lockdep: Apply crossrelease to completions")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Make this structure const as it is only stored in the profile field of a
blk_integrity structure. This field is of type const, so make structure
as const.
Signed-off-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Even though read operations fail, dm_integrity_map_continue() calls
integrity_metadata() to check integrity. In this case, just complete
these.
This also makes it so read I/O errors do not generate integrity warnings
in the kernel log.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunchul Lee <cheol.lee@lge.com>
Acked-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
The arrays of 'struct dm_arg' are never modified by the device-mapper
core, so constify them so that they are placed in .rodata.
(Exception: the args array in dm-raid cannot be constified because it is
allocated on the stack and modified.)
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
This changes DM integrity to count the number of checksum failures and
report the counter in response to STATUSTYPE_INFO request (via 'dmsetup
status').
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Rather than write the entire dm-bufio buffer when only a subset is
changed, improve dm-bufio (and dm-integrity) by only writing the subset
of the buffer that changed.
Update dm-integrity to make use of dm-bufio's new
dm_bufio_mark_partial_buffer_dirty() interface.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).
For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device. But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.
Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If the dm-integrity superblock was corrupted in such a way that the
journal_sections field was zero, the integrity target would deadlock
because it would wait forever for free space in the journal.
Detect this situation and refuse to activate the device.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7eada909bf ("dm: add integrity target")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
If this WARN_ON triggers it speaks to programmer error, and likely
implies corruption, but no released kernel should trigger it. This
WARN_ON serves to assist DM integrity developers as changes are
made/tested in the future.
BUG_ON is excessive for catching programmer error, if a user or
developer would like warnings to trigger a panic, they can enable that
via /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_warn
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
When copying data from the journal to the appropriate place, we submit
many IOs. Some of these IOs could go to adjacent areas. Use on-stack
plugging so that adjacent IOs get merged during submission.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
When using a block size greater than 512 bytes, the dm-integrity target
allocates journal space inefficiently. It allocates one journal entry
for each 512-byte chunk of data, fills an entry for each block of data
and leaves the remaining entries unused.
This issue doesn't cause data corruption, but all the unused journal
entries degrade performance severely.
For example, with 4k blocks and an 8k bio, it would allocate 16 journal
entries but only use 2 entries. The remaining 14 entries were left
unused.
Fix this by adding the missing 'log2_sectors_per_block' shifts that are
required to have each journal entry map to a full block.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7eada909bf ("dm: add integrity target")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Pull core block/IO updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the main pull request for the block layer for 4.13. Not a huge
round in terms of features, but there's a lot of churn related to some
core cleanups.
Note this depends on the UUID tree pull request, that Christoph
already sent out.
This pull request contains:
- A series from Christoph, unifying the error/stats codes in the
block layer. We now use blk_status_t everywhere, instead of using
different schemes for different places.
- Also from Christoph, some cleanups around request allocation and IO
scheduler interactions in blk-mq.
- And yet another series from Christoph, cleaning up how we handle
and do bounce buffering in the block layer.
- A blk-mq debugfs series from Bart, further improving on the support
we have for exporting internal information to aid debugging IO
hangs or stalls.
- Also from Bart, a series that cleans up the request initialization
differences across types of devices.
- A series from Goldwyn Rodrigues, allowing the block layer to return
failure if we will block and the user asked for non-blocking.
- Patch from Hannes for supporting setting loop devices block size to
that of the underlying device.
- Two series of patches from Javier, fixing various issues with
lightnvm, particular around pblk.
- A series from me, adding support for write hints. This comes with
NVMe support as well, so applications can help guide data placement
on flash to improve performance, latencies, and write
amplification.
- A series from Ming, improving and hardening blk-mq support for
stopping/starting and quiescing hardware queues.
- Two pull requests for NVMe updates. Nothing major on the feature
side, but lots of cleanups and bug fixes. From the usual crew.
- A series from Neil Brown, greatly improving the bio rescue set
support. Most notably, this kills the bio rescue work queues, if we
don't really need them.
- Lots of other little bug fixes that are all over the place"
* 'for-4.13/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (217 commits)
lightnvm: pblk: set line bitmap check under debug
lightnvm: pblk: verify that cache read is still valid
lightnvm: pblk: add initialization check
lightnvm: pblk: remove target using async. I/Os
lightnvm: pblk: use vmalloc for GC data buffer
lightnvm: pblk: use right metadata buffer for recovery
lightnvm: pblk: schedule if data is not ready
lightnvm: pblk: remove unused return variable
lightnvm: pblk: fix double-free on pblk init
lightnvm: pblk: fix bad le64 assignations
nvme: Makefile: remove dead build rule
blk-mq: map all HWQ also in hyperthreaded system
nvmet-rdma: register ib_client to not deadlock in device removal
nvme_fc: fix error recovery on link down.
nvmet_fc: fix crashes on bad opcodes
nvme_fc: Fix crash when nvme controller connection fails.
nvme_fc: replace ioabort msleep loop with completion
nvme_fc: fix double calls to nvme_cleanup_cmd()
nvme-fabrics: verify that a controller returns the correct NQN
nvme: simplify nvme_dev_attrs_are_visible
...
Use spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore rather than
spin_{lock,unlock}_irq in submit_flush_bio().
Otherwise lockdep issues the following warning:
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(current->hardirq_context)
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2748 trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x107/0x180
Reported-by: Ondrej Kozina <okozina@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ondrej Kozina <okozina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
dm-integrity would successfully create mappings with the number of
sectors greater than the provided data sector count. Attempts to read
sectors of this mapping that were beyond the provided data sector count
would then yield run-time messages of the form "device-mapper:
integrity: Too big sector number: ...".
Fix this by emitting an error when the requested mapping size is bigger
than the provided data sector count.
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnacek@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'v4.12-rc5' into for-4.13/block
We've already got a few conflicts and upcoming work depends on some of the
changes that have gone into mainline as regression fixes for this series.
Pull in 4.12-rc5 to resolve these conflicts and make it easier on down stream
trees to continue working on 4.13 changes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Instead use the special DM_MAPIO_KILL return value to return -EIO just
like we do for the request based path. Note that dm-log-writes returned
-ENOMEM in a few places, which now becomes -EIO instead. No consumer
treats -ENOMEM special so this shouldn't be an issue (and it should
use a mempool to start with to make guaranteed progress).
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Commit b685d3d65a ("block: treat REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH as
synchronous") removed REQ_SYNC flag from WRITE_{FUA|PREFLUSH|...}
definitions. generic_make_request_checks() however strips REQ_FUA and
REQ_PREFLUSH flags from a bio when the storage doesn't report volatile
write cache and thus write effectively becomes asynchronous which can
lead to performance regressions.
Fix the problem by making sure all bios which are synchronous are
properly marked with REQ_SYNC.
Fixes: b685d3d65a ("block: treat REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH as synchronous")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
The log2 of sectors_per_block was already calculated, so we don't have
to use the ilog2 function.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
The DM integrity block size can now be 512, 1k, 2k or 4k. Using larger
blocks reduces metadata handling overhead. The block size can be
configured at table load time using the "block_size:<value>" option;
where <value> is expressed in bytes (defult is still 512 bytes).
It is safe to use larger block sizes with DM integrity, because the
DM integrity journal makes sure that the whole block is updated
atomically even if the underlying device doesn't support atomic writes
of that size (e.g. 4k block ontop of a 512b device).
Depends-on: 2859323e ("block: fix blk_integrity_register to use template's interval_exp if not 0")
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Some coding style changes.
Fix a bug that the array test_tag has insufficient size if the digest
size of internal has is bigger than the tag size.
The function __fls is undefined for zero argument, this patch fixes
undefined behavior if the user sets zero interleave_sectors.
Fix the limit of optional arguments to 8.
Don't allocate crypt_data on the stack to avoid a BUG with debug kernel.
Rename all optional argument names to have underscores rather than
dashes.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
In recovery mode, we don't:
- replay the journal
- check checksums
- allow writes to the device
This mode can be used as a last resort for data recovery. The
motivation for recovery mode is that when there is a single error in the
journal, the user should not lose access to the whole device.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
The dm-integrity target emulates a block device that has additional
per-sector tags that can be used for storing integrity information.
A general problem with storing integrity tags with every sector is that
writing the sector and the integrity tag must be atomic - i.e. in case of
crash, either both sector and integrity tag or none of them is written.
To guarantee write atomicity the dm-integrity target uses a journal. It
writes sector data and integrity tags into a journal, commits the journal
and then copies the data and integrity tags to their respective location.
The dm-integrity target can be used with the dm-crypt target - in this
situation the dm-crypt target creates the integrity data and passes them
to the dm-integrity target via bio_integrity_payload attached to the bio.
In this mode, the dm-crypt and dm-integrity targets provide authenticated
disk encryption - if the attacker modifies the encrypted device, an I/O
error is returned instead of random data.
The dm-integrity target can also be used as a standalone target, in this
mode it calculates and verifies the integrity tag internally. In this
mode, the dm-integrity target can be used to detect silent data
corruption on the disk or in the I/O path.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
