This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

dm: discard support requires all targets in a table support discards

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: dm-discard-support-requires-all-targets-in-a-table-support-discards.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 8a74d29d541cd86569139c6f3f44b2d210458071 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Mike Snitzer snitzer@redhat.com Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:40:52 -0500 Subject: dm: discard support requires all targets in a table support discards

From: Mike Snitzer snitzer@redhat.com

commit 8a74d29d541cd86569139c6f3f44b2d210458071 upstream.

A DM device with a mix of discard capabilities (due to some underlying devices not having discard support) _should_ just return -EOPNOTSUPP for the region of the device that doesn't support discards (even if only by way of the underlying driver formally not supporting discards). BUT, that does ask the underlying driver to handle something that it never advertised support for. In doing so we're exposing users to the potential for a underlying disk driver hanging if/when a discard is issued a the device that is incapable and never claimed to support discards.

Fix this by requiring that each DM target in a DM table provide discard support as a prereq for a DM device to advertise support for discards.

This may cause some configurations that were happily supporting discards (even in the face of a mix of discard support) to stop supporting discards -- but the risk of users hitting driver hangs, and forced reboots, outweighs supporting those fringe mixed discard configurations.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer snitzer@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 33 ++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c @@ -1758,13 +1758,12 @@ static bool dm_table_supports_write_zero return true; }

- -static int device_discard_capable(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev, - sector_t start, sector_t len, void *data) +static int device_not_discard_capable(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev, + sector_t start, sector_t len, void *data) { struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(dev->bdev);

- return q && blk_queue_discard(q); + return q && !blk_queue_discard(q); }

static bool dm_table_supports_discards(struct dm_table *t) @@ -1772,28 +1771,24 @@ static bool dm_table_supports_discards(s struct dm_target *ti; unsigned i;

- /* - * Unless any target used by the table set discards_supported, - * require at least one underlying device to support discards. - * t->devices includes internal dm devices such as mirror logs - * so we need to use iterate_devices here, which targets - * supporting discard selectively must provide. - */ for (i = 0; i < dm_table_get_num_targets(t); i++) { ti = dm_table_get_target(t, i);

if (!ti->num_discard_bios) - continue; - - if (ti->discards_supported) - return true; + return false;

- if (ti->type->iterate_devices && - ti->type->iterate_devices(ti, device_discard_capable, NULL)) - return true; + /* + * Either the target provides discard support (as implied by setting + * 'discards_supported') or it relies on _all_ data devices having + * discard support. + */ + if (!ti->discards_supported && + (!ti->type->iterate_devices || + ti->type->iterate_devices(ti, device_not_discard_capable, NULL))) + return false; }

- return false; + return true; }

void dm_table_set_restrictions(struct dm_table *t, struct request_queue *q,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from snitzer@redhat.com are

queue-4.14/dm-allocate-struct-mapped_device-with-kvzalloc.patch queue-4.14/dm-zoned-ignore-last-smaller-runt-zone.patch queue-4.14/dm-discard-support-requires-all-targets-in-a-table-support-discards.patch queue-4.14/dm-fix-race-between-dm_get_from_kobject-and-__dm_destroy.patch queue-4.14/dm-cache-fix-race-condition-in-the-writeback-mode-overwrite_bio-optimisation.patch queue-4.14/dm-integrity-allow-unaligned-bv_offset.patch queue-4.14/dm-crypt-allow-unaligned-bv_offset.patch queue-4.14/dm-mpath-remove-annoying-message-of-blk_get_request-returned-11.patch queue-4.14/dm-bufio-fix-integer-overflow-when-limiting-maximum-cache-size.patch