loop: add some basic read-only sysfs attributes

Create /sys/block/loopX/loop directory and provide these attributes:
- backing_file
- autoclear
- offset
- sizelimit

This loop directory is prese

loop: add some basic read-only sysfs attributes

Create /sys/block/loopX/loop directory and provide these attributes:
- backing_file
- autoclear
- offset
- sizelimit

This loop directory is present only if loop device is configured.

To be used in util-linux-ng (and possibly elsewhere like udev rules)
where code need to get loop attributes from kernel (and not store
duplicate info in userspace).

Moreover loop ioctls are not even able to provide full backing
file info because of buffer limits.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

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BLOCK: fix bio.bi_rw handling

Return of the bi_rw tests is no longer bool after commit 74450be1. But
results of such tests are stored in bools. This doesn't fit in there
for some compilers (gcc 4.5

BLOCK: fix bio.bi_rw handling

Return of the bi_rw tests is no longer bool after commit 74450be1. But
results of such tests are stored in bools. This doesn't fit in there
for some compilers (gcc 4.5 here), so either use !! magic to get real
bools or use ulong where the result is assigned somewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

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block: push down BKL into .open and .release

The open and release block_device_operations are currently
called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must
first make sure that all drivers th

block: push down BKL into .open and .release

The open and release block_device_operations are currently
called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must
first make sure that all drivers that currently rely
on this have no regressions.

This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release
operations for all block drivers to prepare for the
next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL
with their own locks or remove it completely when it can
be shown that it is not needed.

The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only
remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block
layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none
of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}.

Most of these two functions is also under the protection
of bdev->bd_mutex, including the actual calls to
->open and ->release, and the common code does not
access any global data structures that need the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

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block: remove q->prepare_flush_fn completely

This removes q->prepare_flush_fn completely (changes the
blk_queue_ordered API).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed

block: remove q->prepare_flush_fn completely

This removes q->prepare_flush_fn completely (changes the
blk_queue_ordered API).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

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block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request

Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
d

block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request

Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver. There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests: BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD. Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

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sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions

Now that the last user passing a NULL file pointer is gone we can remove
the redundant dentry argument and associated hacks inside vfs_fsynmc_range.

The next

sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions

Now that the last user passing a NULL file pointer is gone we can remove
the redundant dentry argument and associated hacks inside vfs_fsynmc_range.

The next step will be removig the dentry argument from ->fsync, but given
the luck with the last round of method prototype changes I'd rather
defer this until after the main merge window.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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generate "change" uevent for loop device

Recent udev versions probe loop devices for filesystems meaning that
the /dev/disk hierarchy may contain useful entries such as

$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/

generate "change" uevent for loop device

Recent udev versions probe loop devices for filesystems meaning that
the /dev/disk hierarchy may contain useful entries such as

$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 11 13:41 /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live -> ../../loop0

Unfortunately, no "change" uevent is generated when the loop device is
detached so the symlink persists. Additionally, no "change" uevent is
guaranteed to be generated when attaching an fd or changing capacity.
For example, user space could open the loop device O_RDONLY (in fact,
recent util-linux-ng does this) so udev's OPTIONS+="watch" machinery may
not trigger the "change" uevent.

This patch ensures that the "change" uevent is generated in all of
these cases. As a result, the /dev/disk hierarchy works as expected
for loop devices.

Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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loop: Update mtime when writing using aops

Update mtime when writing to backing filesystem using the address space
operations write_begin and write_end.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth

loop: Update mtime when writing using aops

Update mtime when writing to backing filesystem using the address space
operations write_begin and write_end.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when bu

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.

2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

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loop: fix NULL dereference if mount fails

Commit bb21488482bd36eae6b30b014d93619063773fd4 ("[PATCH] switch loop")
started to pass NULL bdev to ioctl hook.

Steps to reproduce:

[boot with loop.max_

loop: fix NULL dereference if mount fails

Commit bb21488482bd36eae6b30b014d93619063773fd4 ("[PATCH] switch loop")
started to pass NULL bdev to ioctl hook.

Steps to reproduce:

[boot with loop.max_part=1]
[mount -o loop something so mount fails]

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000b8
IP: [<ffffffff811486ee>] blkdev_ioctl+0x2e/0xa30
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:35/ACPI0003:00/power_supply/ACAD/online
CPU 0
Modules linked in: zfs nvidia(P) [last unloaded: zfs]
Pid: 15177, comm: mount Tainted: P 2.6.32-rc4-zfs #2 Satellite X200
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811486ee>] [<ffffffff811486ee>] blkdev_ioctl+0x2e/0xa30
RSP: 0018:ffff88003b3d5bb8 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 000000000000125f RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff88003b3d5ce8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00007ffffffff000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff880071cef280 R15: 00000000000200da
FS: 00007fd77cfe7740(0000) GS:ffff880001600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000000000000b8 CR3: 0000000001001000 CR4: 00000000000026f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process mount (pid: 15177, threadinfo ffff88003b3d4000, task ffff88007572f920)
Stack:
ffff88003b3d5c38 ffffffff812f95f5 ffff88007eeb6600 0000000000000000
<0> 0000000000000000 ffff88003b3d5c18 ffffffff811547d9 ffff88001bf11ef0
<0> 7fffffffffffffff ffff88001bf11ee8 ffff88001bf11ef0 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff812f95f5>] ? schedule_timeout+0x1f5/0x250
[<ffffffff811547d9>] ? rb_insert_color+0x109/0x140
[<ffffffff812fb754>] ? _spin_unlock_irq+0x14/0x40
[<ffffffff812f84c6>] ? wait_for_common+0x66/0x170
[<ffffffff8105a280>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[<ffffffff810f8258>] ioctl_by_bdev+0x38/0x50
[<ffffffff811d2481>] loop_clr_fd+0x1e1/0x210
[<ffffffff811d2522>] lo_release+0x72/0x80
[<ffffffff810f934c>] __blkdev_put+0x1ac/0x1d0
[<ffffffff810f937b>] blkdev_put+0xb/0x10
[<ffffffff810f93b9>] blkdev_close+0x39/0x60
[<ffffffff810ccef3>] __fput+0xd3/0x230
[<ffffffff810cd06d>] fput+0x1d/0x30
[<ffffffff810c9680>] filp_close+0x50/0x80
[<ffffffff81061f11>] put_files_struct+0x81/0x100
[<ffffffff81061fde>] exit_files+0x4e/0x60
[<ffffffff81063ec5>] do_exit+0x6b5/0x730
[<ffffffff8107b279>] ? up_read+0x9/0x10
[<ffffffff8104c86e>] ? do_page_fault+0x18e/0x2a0
[<ffffffff81063f81>] do_group_exit+0x41/0xc0
[<ffffffff81064012>] sys_exit_group+0x12/0x20
[<ffffffff81030deb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: f8 48 89 e5 48 81 ec 30 01 00 00 48 89 5d d8 4c 89 6d e8 4c 89 65 e0 4c 89 75 f0 4c 89 7d f8 48 89 bd e8 fe ff ff 49 89 cd 89 f3 <49> 8b 88 b8 00 00 00 81 fa 68 12 00 00 0f 84 57 05 00 00 0f 86
RIP [<ffffffff811486ee>] blkdev_ioctl+0x2e/0xa30
RSP <ffff88003b3d5bb8>
CR2: 00000000000000b8
---[ end trace c0b4d3c3118d1427 ]---
Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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const: make block_device_operations const

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-

const: make block_device_operations const

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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bio: first step in sanitizing the bio->bi_rw flag testing

Get rid of any functions that test for these bits and make callers
use bio_rw_flagged() directly. Then it is at least directly apparent
what

bio: first step in sanitizing the bio->bi_rw flag testing

Get rid of any functions that test for these bits and make callers
use bio_rw_flagged() directly. Then it is at least directly apparent
what variable and flag they check.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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headers: smp_lock.h redux

* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h

headers: smp_lock.h redux

* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT

This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
(which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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splice: implement default splice_read method

If f_op->splice_read() is not implemented, fall back to a plain read.
Use vfs_readv() to read into previously allocated pages.

This will allow splice an

splice: implement default splice_read method

If f_op->splice_read() is not implemented, fall back to a plain read.
Use vfs_readv() to read into previously allocated pages.

This will allow splice and functions using splice, such as the loop
device, to work on all filesystems. This includes "direct_io" files
in fuse which bypass the page cache.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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loop: use BIO list management functions

Now that the bio list management stuff is generic, convert loop to use
bio lists instead of its own private bio list implementation.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@k

loop: use BIO list management functions

Now that the bio list management stuff is generic, convert loop to use
bio lists instead of its own private bio list implementation.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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loop: mutex already unlocked in loop_clr_fd()

mount/1865 is trying to release lock (&lo->lo_ctl_mutex) at:
but there are no more locks to release!

mutex is already unlocked in loop_clr_fd(), we sho

loop: mutex already unlocked in loop_clr_fd()

mount/1865 is trying to release lock (&lo->lo_ctl_mutex) at:
but there are no more locks to release!

mutex is already unlocked in loop_clr_fd(), we should not
try to unlock it in lo_release() again.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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loop: add ioctl to resize a loop device

Add the ability to 'resize' the loop device on the fly.

One practical application is a loop file with XFS filesystem, already
mounted: You can easily enlarge

loop: add ioctl to resize a loop device

Add the ability to 'resize' the loop device on the fly.

One practical application is a loop file with XFS filesystem, already
mounted: You can easily enlarge the file (append some bytes) and then call
ioctl(fd, LOOP_SET_CAPACITY, new); The loop driver will learn about the
new size and you can use xfs_growfs later on, which will allow you to use
full capacity of the loop file without the need to unmount.

Test app:

#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/loop.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <getopt.h>

char *me;

void usage(FILE *f)
{
fprintf(f, "%s [options] loop_dev [backend_file]\n"
"-s, --set new_size_in_bytes\n"
"\twhen backend_file is given, "
"it will be expanded too while keeping the original contents\n",
me);
}

struct option opts[] = {
{
.name = "set",
.has_arg = 1,
.flag = NULL,
.val = 's'
},
{
.name = "help",
.has_arg = 0,
.flag = NULL,
.val = 'h'
}
};

void err_size(char *name, __u64 old)
{
fprintf(stderr, "size must be larger than current %s (%llu)\n",
name, old);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int fd, err, c, i, bfd;
ssize_t ssz;
size_t sz;
__u64 old, new, append;
char a[BUFSIZ];
struct stat st;
FILE *out;
char *backend, *dev;

err = EINVAL;
out = stderr;
me = argv[0];
new = 0;
while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "s:h", opts, &i)) != -1) {
switch (c) {
case 's':
errno = 0;
new = strtoull(optarg, NULL, 0);
if (errno) {
err = errno;
perror(argv[i]);
goto out;
}
break;

case 'h':
err = 0;
out = stdout;
goto err;

default:
perror(argv[i]);
goto err;
}
}

if (optind < argc)
dev = argv[optind++];
else
goto err;

fd = open(dev, O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
err = errno;
perror(dev);
goto out;
}

err = ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE64, &old);
if (err) {
err = errno;
perror("ioctl BLKGETSIZE64");
goto out;
}

if (!new) {
printf("%llu\n", old);
goto out;
}

if (new < old) {
err = EINVAL;
err_size(dev, old);
goto out;
}

if (optind < argc) {
backend = argv[optind++];
bfd = open(backend, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND);
if (bfd < 0) {
err = errno;
perror(backend);
goto out;
}
err = fstat(bfd, &st);
if (err) {
err = errno;
perror(backend);
goto out;
}
if (new < st.st_size) {
err = EINVAL;
err_size(backend, st.st_size);
goto out;
}
append = new - st.st_size;
sz = sizeof(a);
while (append > 0) {
if (append < sz)
sz = append;
ssz = write(bfd, a, sz);
if (ssz != sz) {
err = errno;
perror(backend);
goto out;
}
append -= sz;
}
err = fsync(bfd);
if (err) {
err = errno;
perror(backend);
goto out;
}
}

err = ioctl(fd, LOOP_SET_CAPACITY, new);
if (err) {
err = errno;
perror("ioctl LOOP_SET_CAPACITY");
}
goto out;

err:
usage(out);
out:
return err;
}

Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Matejicek <tomas@slax.org>
Cc: <util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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loop: fix circular locking in loop_clr_fd()

With CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING enabled

$ losetup /dev/loop0 file
$ losetup -o 32256 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop0

$ losetup -d /dev/loop1
$ losetup -d /dev/loop0

tr

loop: fix circular locking in loop_clr_fd()

With CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING enabled

$ losetup /dev/loop0 file
$ losetup -o 32256 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop0

$ losetup -d /dev/loop1
$ losetup -d /dev/loop0

triggers a [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]

I think this warning is a false positive.

Open/close on a loop device acquires bd_mutex of the device before
acquiring lo_ctl_mutex of the same device. For ioctl(LOOP_CLR_FD) after
acquiring lo_ctl_mutex, fput on the backing_file might acquire the bd_mutex of
a device, if backing file is a device and this is the last reference to the
file being dropped . But it is guaranteed that it is impossible to have a
circular list of backing devices.(say loop2->loop1->loop0->loop2 is not
possible), which guarantees that this can never deadlock.

So this warning should be suppressed. It is very difficult to annotate lockdep
not to warn here in the correct way. A simple way to silence lockdep could be
to mark the lo_ctl_mutex in ioctl to be a sub class, but this might mask some
other real bugs.

@@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ static int lo_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
struct loop_device *lo = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
int err;

- mutex_lock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
+ mutex_lock_nested(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex, 1);
switch (cmd) {
case LOOP_SET_FD:
err = loop_set_fd(lo, mode, bdev, arg);

Or actually marking the bd_mutex after lo_ctl_mutex as a sub class could be
a better solution.

Luckily it is easy to avoid calling fput on backing file with lo_ctl_mutex
held, so no lockdep annotation is required.

If you do not like the special handling of the lo_ctl_mutex just for the
LOOP_CLR_FD ioctl in lo_ioctl(), the mutex handling could be moved inside
each of the individual ioctl handlers and I could send you another patch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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loop: support barrier writes

Honour barrier requests in the loop back block device driver.
In case of barrier bios, flush the backing file once before processing the
barrier and once after to guaran

loop: support barrier writes

Honour barrier requests in the loop back block device driver.
In case of barrier bios, flush the backing file once before processing the
barrier and once after to guarantee ordering. In case of filesystems that
does not support fsync, barrier bios would be failed with -EOPNOTSUPP.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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loop: don't increment p->offset with (size_t) -EINVAL

Upon a 'transfer error block' size is set to -EINVAL, but this becomes positive
since size is unsigned: p->offset still gets incremented.

Signe

loop: don't increment p->offset with (size_t) -EINVAL

Upon a 'transfer error block' size is set to -EINVAL, but this becomes positive
since size is unsigned: p->offset still gets incremented.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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loop: Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device.

In loop_unplug() function is expected that mapping is set
and lo->lo_backing_file is not NULL.

Unfortunately loop_set_fd() set the requ

loop: Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device.

In loop_unplug() function is expected that mapping is set
and lo->lo_backing_file is not NULL.

Unfortunately loop_set_fd() set the request queue unplug function,
but loop_clr_fd() doesn't clear that.

Loop device allows open of non-configured loop in some situations.
If the unplug on request queue is called, loop module oopses because
of missing lo_backing_file.

Simple reproducer:
losetup /dev/loop0 /xxx
losetup -d /dev/loop0
dmsetup create x --table "0 1 linear /dev/loop0 0"

EIP is at loop_unplug+0x1d/0x3b
...
Call Trace:
blk_unplug+0x57/0x5e
dm_table_unplug_all+0x34/0x77 [dm_mod]
destroy_inode+0x27/0x38
generic_delete_inode+0xd5/0xd9
iput+0x4b/0x4e
dm_resume+0xca/0xfe [dm_mod]
dev_suspend+0x143/0x165 [dm_mod]
dm_ctl_ioctl+0x18e/0x1cf [dm_mod]
dev_suspend+0x0/0x165 [dm_mod]
dm_ctl_ioctl+0x0/0x1cf [dm_mod]
vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x69
do_vfs_ioctl+0x39d/0x3c7
trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd
remove_vma+0x50/0x56
do_munmap+0x21c/0x237
sys_ioctl+0x2c/0x45
sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x31

Several reports here
http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=loop_unplug

Fix it by simply clear unplug function together with
removing of backing file.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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loop: Flush possible running bios when loop device is released.

When there are still queued bios and reference count
drops to zero, loop device must flush all queued bios.

Otherwise it can lead to

loop: Flush possible running bios when loop device is released.

When there are still queued bios and reference count
drops to zero, loop device must flush all queued bios.

Otherwise it can lead to situation that caller
closes the device, but some bios are still running
and endio() function call later OOpses when uses
unallocated mempool.

This happens for example when running dm-crypt over loop,
here is typical oops backtrace:

Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
EIP is at mempool_free+0x12/0x6b
...
crypt_dec_pending+0x50/0x54 [dm_crypt]
crypt_endio+0x9f/0xa7 [dm_crypt]
crypt_endio+0x0/0xa7 [dm_crypt]
bio_endio+0x2b/0x2e
loop_thread+0x37a/0x3b1
do_lo_send_aops+0x0/0x165
autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x33
loop_thread+0x0/0x3b1
kthread+0x3b/0x61
kthread+0x0/0x61
kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

(But crash is reproducible with different dm targets
running over loop device too.)

Patch fixes it by flushing the bios in release call,
reusing the flush mechanism for switching backing store.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the block loopback driver

Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the block loopback driver

Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

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fs: remove prepare_write/commit_write

Nothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree
completely.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: schedule simple_prepare_write() for unexporting]

fs: remove prepare_write/commit_write

Nothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree
completely.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: schedule simple_prepare_write() for unexporting]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[PATCH] kill the unused bsize on the send side of /dev/loop

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>