The patch titled
Subject: nbd: fsync and kill block device on shutdown
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
nbd-fsync-and-kill-block-device-on-shutdown.patch
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From: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Subject: nbd: fsync and kill block device on shutdown
There are two problems with shutdown in the NBD driver.
1: Receiving the NBD_DISCONNECT ioctl does not sync the filesystem.
This patch adds the sync operation into __nbd_ioctl()'s
NBD_DISCONNECT handler. This is useful because BLKFLSBUF is restricted
to processes that have CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and the NBD client may not
possess it (fsync of the block device does not sync the filesystem,
either).
2: Once we clear the socket we have no guarantee that later reads will
come from the same backing storage.
The patch adds calls to kill_bdev() in __nbd_ioctl()'s socket
clearing code so the page cache is cleaned, lest reads that hit on the
page cache will return stale data from the previously-accessible disk.
Example:
# qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sr0
# file -s /dev/nbd0
/dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.
# qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
# qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sda
# file -s /dev/nbd0
/dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.
While /dev/sda has:
# file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: x86 boot sector; etc.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Clements <[email protected]>
Cc: Alex Bligh <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
drivers/block/nbd.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/block/nbd.c~nbd-fsync-and-kill-block-device-on-shutdown
drivers/block/nbd.c
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c~nbd-fsync-and-kill-block-device-on-shutdown
+++ a/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -608,12 +608,20 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_devi
struct request sreq;
dev_info(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), "NBD_DISCONNECT\n");
+ if (!nbd->sock)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ mutex_unlock(&nbd->tx_lock);
+ fsync_bdev(bdev);
+ mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock);
blk_rq_init(NULL, &sreq);
sreq.cmd_type = REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL;
nbd_cmd(&sreq) = NBD_CMD_DISC;
+
+ /* Check again after getting mutex back. */
if (!nbd->sock)
return -EINVAL;
+
nbd_send_req(nbd, &sreq);
return 0;
}
@@ -627,6 +635,7 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_devi
nbd_clear_que(nbd);
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&nbd->queue_head));
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&nbd->waiting_queue));
+ kill_bdev(bdev);
if (file)
fput(file);
return 0;
@@ -719,6 +728,7 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_devi
nbd->file = NULL;
nbd_clear_que(nbd);
dev_warn(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), "queue cleared\n");
+ kill_bdev(bdev);
queue_flag_clear_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, nbd->disk->queue);
if (file)
fput(file);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
linux-next.patch
nbd-support-flush-requests.patch
nbd-fsync-and-kill-block-device-on-shutdown.patch
nbd-show-read-only-state-in-sysfs.patch
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