On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/10/18 9:18 AM, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
>> Regular block device writes go through blkdev_write_iter(), which does
>> bdev_read_only(), while zeroout/discard/etc requests are never checked,
>> both userspace- and kernel-triggered. Add a generic catch-all check to
>> generic_make_request_checks() to actually enforce ioctl(BLKROSET) and
>> set_disk_ro(), which is used by quite a few drivers for things like
>> snapshots, read-only backing files/images, etc.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]>
>> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> block/blk-core.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
>> index f843ae4f858d..d132bec4a266 100644
>> --- a/block/blk-core.c
>> +++ b/block/blk-core.c
>> @@ -2123,6 +2123,20 @@ static inline int bio_check_eod(struct bio *bio,
>> unsigned int nr_sectors)
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> +static inline bool bio_check_ro(struct bio *bio)
>> +{
>> + struct hd_struct *p;
>> + bool ret = false;
>> +
>> + rcu_read_lock();
>> + p = __disk_get_part(bio->bi_disk, bio->bi_partno);
>> + if (!p || (p->policy && op_is_write(bio_op(bio))))
>> + ret = true;
>> + rcu_read_unlock();
>> +
>> + return ret;
>> +}> +
>> static noinline_for_stack bool
>> generic_make_request_checks(struct bio *bio)
>> {
>> @@ -2145,11 +2159,18 @@ generic_make_request_checks(struct bio *bio)
>> goto end_io;
>> }
>>
>> + if (unlikely(bio_check_ro(bio))) {
>> + printk(KERN_ERR
>> + "generic_make_request: Trying to write "
>> + "to read-only block-device %s (partno %d)\n",
>> + bio_devname(bio, b), bio->bi_partno);
>> + goto end_io;
>> + }
>
> It's yet another check that adds part lookup and rcu lock/unlock in that
> path. Can we combine some of them? Make this part of the remap? This
> overhead impacts every IO, let's not bloat it more than absolutely
> necessary.
Yes, combining with should_fail_request check in remap should be easy
enough. I considered it, but opted for the less invasive patch. I'll
re-spin.
Thanks,
Ilya