On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 17:15 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> With current code after a call to:
> bdev = blkdev_get_by_path(dev_name, mode, fs_type);
> size = i_size_read(bdev->bd_inode);
> part_size = bdev->bd_part->nr_sects << 9;
>
> I get the following bad results:
> dev_name == /dev/ram0
> foo: [foo_mount:880] size=0x40000000 bdev=ffff88003dc24340 \
> bd_inode=ffff88003dc24430 bd_part=ffff88003ca22848 part_size=0x40000000
> dev_name == /dev/ram0p1
> foo: [foo_mount:880] size=0x40000000 bdev=ffff88003d2f6d80 \
> bd_inode=ffff88003d2f6e70 bd_part=ffff88003ca22848 part_size=0x40000000
> dev_name == /dev/ram0p2
> foo: [foo_mount:880] size=0x40000000 bdev=ffff88003dc24680 \
> bd_inode=ffff88003dc24770 bd_part=ffff88003ca22848 part_size=0x40000000
> Note how all three bdev(s) point to the same bd_part.
>
> This is do to a single bad clubber in brd_probe() which is
> removed in this patch:
> - *part = 0;
>
> because of this all 3 bdev(s) above get to point to the same bd_part[0]
>
> While at it fix/rename brd_init_one() since all devices are created on
> load of driver, brd_probe() will never be called with a new un-created
> device.
> brd_init_one() is now renamed to brd_find() which is what it does.
>
> TODO: There is one more partitions BUG regarding
> brd_direct_access() which is fixed on the next patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <b...@plexistor.com>
> ---
> drivers/block/brd.c | 19 ++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c
> index c7d138e..92334f6 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/brd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/brd.c
> @@ -523,22 +523,20 @@ static void brd_free(struct brd_device *brd)
> kfree(brd);
> }
>
> -static struct brd_device *brd_init_one(int i)
> +static struct brd_device *brd_find(int i)
> {
> struct brd_device *brd;
>
> list_for_each_entry(brd, &brd_devices, brd_list) {
> if (brd->brd_number == i)
> - goto out;
> + return brd;
> }
>
> - brd = brd_alloc(i);
> - if (brd) {
> - add_disk(brd->brd_disk);
> - list_add_tail(&brd->brd_list, &brd_devices);
> - }
> -out:
> - return brd;
> + /* brd always allocates all its devices at load time, therefor
> + * brd_probe will never be called with a new brd_number
> + */
> + printk(KERN_EROR "brd: brd_find unexpected device %d\n", i);
s/KERN_EROR/KERN_ERR/
> + return NULL;
> }
>
> static void brd_del_one(struct brd_device *brd)
> @@ -554,11 +552,10 @@ static struct kobject *brd_probe(dev_t dev, int *part,
> void *data)
> struct kobject *kobj;
>
> mutex_lock(&brd_devices_mutex);
> - brd = brd_init_one(MINOR(dev) >> part_shift);
> + brd = brd_find(MINOR(dev) >> part_shift);
> kobj = brd ? get_disk(brd->brd_disk) : NULL;
> mutex_unlock(&brd_devices_mutex);
>
> - *part = 0;
> return kobj;
> }
It is possible to create new block devices with BRD at runtime:
# mknod /dev/new_brd b 1 4
# fdisk -l /dev/new_brd
This causes a new BRD disk to be created, and hits your error case:
Jul 30 10:40:57 alara kernel: brd: brd_find unexpected device 4
I guess in general I'm not saying that BRD needs to have partitions - indeed
it may not give you much in the way of added functionality. As the code
currently stands partitions aren't surfaced anyway
(GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO is set). For PRD, however, I *do* want to
enable partitions correctly because eventually I'd like to enhance PRD so that
it *does* actually handle NVDIMMs correctly, and for that partitions do make
sense. And if I have to implement and debug partitions for PRD, it's easy to
stick them in BRD in case anyone wants to use them.
- Ross
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