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  1. 26 Mar, 2009 5 commits
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      Move the default_backing_dev_info out of readahead.c and into backing-dev.c · 26160158
      Jens Axboe authored 
      It really makes no sense to have it in readahead.c, so move it where
it belongs.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      26160158
    • Avishay Traeger's avatar
      block: Repeated lines in switching-sched.txt · 07e86f40
      Avishay Traeger authored 
      These lines appear in this file twice - removed one occurrence.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAvishay Traeger <avishay@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      07e86f40
    • Boaz Harrosh's avatar
      bsg: Remove bogus check against request_queue->max_sectors · e7cbbf1b
      Boaz Harrosh authored 
      bsg submits REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC so the right check is max_hw_sectors.
But I've removed this check because right after, bsg proceeds with
calling blk_rq_map_user() which does all the right checks.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      e7cbbf1b
    • Boaz Harrosh's avatar
      block: WARN in __blk_put_request() for potential bio leak · 1cd96c24
      Boaz Harrosh authored 
      Put a WARN_ON in __blk_put_request if it is about to
leak bio(s). This is a serious bug that can happen in error
handling code paths.

For this to work I have fixed a couple of places in block/ where
request->bio != NULL ownership was not honored. And a small cleanup
at sg_io() while at it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      1cd96c24
    • Nikanth Karthikesan's avatar
      loop: fix circular locking in loop_clr_fd() · f028f3b2
      Nikanth Karthikesan authored 
      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: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      f028f3b2
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