When performing a read-modify-write(RMW) operation, any modification to a buffered block must cause the entire buffer to be marked dirty.
Marking only a subrange as dirty is incorrect because the underlying device block size(ubs) defines the minimum read/write granularity. A lower device can perform I/O only on regions which are fully aligned and sized to ubs. This change ensures that write-back operations always occur in full ubs-sized chunks, matching the intended emulation semantics of the EBS target. Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <[email protected]> --- drivers/md/dm-ebs-target.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ebs-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-ebs-target.c index 6abb31ca9662..b354e74a670e 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-ebs-target.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-ebs-target.c @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static int __ebs_rw_bvec(struct ebs_c *ec, enum req_op op, struct bio_vec *bv, } else { flush_dcache_page(bv->bv_page); memcpy(ba, pa, cur_len); - dm_bufio_mark_partial_buffer_dirty(b, buf_off, buf_off + cur_len); + dm_bufio_mark_buffer_dirty(b); } dm_bufio_release(b); -- 2.47.3
