[PATCH] dm-bufio: align write boundary on bdev_logical_block_size

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2025, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:

> 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.

Hi

I think it would be better to fix this in dm-bufio, so that other dm-bufio 
users would also benefit from the fix. Please try this patch - does it fix 
it?

Mikulas



From: Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com>

There may be devices with logical block size larger than 4k. Fix
dm-bufio, so that it will align I/O on logical block size. This commit
fixes I/O errors on the dm-ebs target on the top of emulated nvme device
with 8k logical block size created with qemu parameters:

-device 
nvme,drive=drv0,serial=foo,logical_block_size=8192,physical_block_size=8192

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com>
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org

---
 drivers/md/dm-bufio.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c        2025-10-13 21:42:47.000000000 
+0200
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c     2025-10-20 14:40:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ static void submit_io(struct dm_buffer *
 {
        unsigned int n_sectors;
        sector_t sector;
-       unsigned int offset, end;
+       unsigned int offset, end, align;
 
        b->end_io = end_io;
 
@@ -1388,9 +1388,10 @@ static void submit_io(struct dm_buffer *
                        b->c->write_callback(b);
                offset = b->write_start;
                end = b->write_end;
-               offset &= -DM_BUFIO_WRITE_ALIGN;
-               end += DM_BUFIO_WRITE_ALIGN - 1;
-               end &= -DM_BUFIO_WRITE_ALIGN;
+               align = max(DM_BUFIO_WRITE_ALIGN, 
bdev_logical_block_size(b->c->bdev));
+               offset &= -align;
+               end += align - 1;
+               end &= -align;
                if (unlikely(end > b->c->block_size))
                        end = b->c->block_size;