kernel/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper, branch v5.10.257

dm integrity: conditionally disable "recalculate" feature

2021-01-27T10:54:55+00:00

commit 5c02406428d5219c367c5f53457698c58bc5f917 upstream. Otherwise a malicious user could (ab)use the "recalculate" feature that makes dm-integrity calculate the checksums in the background while the device is already usable. When the system restarts before all checksums have been calculated, the calculation continues where it was interrupted even if the recalculate feature is not requested the next time the dm device is set up. Disable recalculating if we use internal_hash or journal_hash with a key (e.g. HMAC) and we don't have the "legacy_recalculate" flag. This may break activation of a volume, created by an older kernel, that is not yet fully recalculated -- if this happens, the user should add the "legacy_recalculate" flag to constructor parameters. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Reported-by: Daniel Glockner Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm crypt: document encrypted keyring key option

2020-09-22T17:25:58+00:00

Commit 27f5411a718c4 ("dm crypt: support using encrypted keys") introduced support for encrypted keyring type. Fix documentation in admin guide to mention this type. Fixes: 27f5411a718c4 ("dm crypt: support using encrypted keys") Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm crypt: document new no_workqueue flags

2020-09-22T17:24:46+00:00

Commit 39d42fa96ba1 ("dm crypt: add flags to optionally bypass kcryptd workqueues") introduced new dm-crypt 'no_read_workqueue' and 'no_write_workqueue' flags. Add documentation to admin guide for them. Fixes: 39d42fa96ba1 ("dm crypt: add flags to optionally bypass kcryptd workqueues") Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

Merge tag 'for-5.9/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

2020-08-07T20:08:09+00:00

Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer: - DM multipath locking fixes around m->flags tests and improvements to bio-based code so that it follows patterns established by request-based code. - Request-based DM core improvement to eliminate unnecessary call to blk_mq_queue_stopped(). - Add "panic_on_corruption" error handling mode to DM verity target. - DM bufio fix to to perform buffer cleanup from a workqueue rather than wait for IO in reclaim context from shrinker. - DM crypt improvement to optionally avoid async processing via workqueues for reads and/or writes -- via "no_read_workqueue" and "no_write_workqueue" features. This more direct IO processing improves latency and throughput with faster storage. Avoiding workqueue IO submission for writes (DM_CRYPT_NO_WRITE_WORKQUEUE) is a requirement for adding zoned block device support to DM crypt. - Add zoned block device support to DM crypt. Makes use of DM_CRYPT_NO_WRITE_WORKQUEUE and a new optional feature (DM_CRYPT_WRITE_INLINE) that allows write completion to wait for encryption to complete. This allows write ordering to be preserved, which is needed for zoned block devices. - Fix DM ebs target's check for REQ_OP_FLUSH. - Fix DM core's report zones support to not report more zones than were requested. - A few small compiler warning fixes. - DM dust improvements to return output directly to the user rather than require they scrape the system log for output. * tag 'for-5.9/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: dm: don't call report zones for more than the user requested dm ebs: Fix incorrect checking for REQ_OP_FLUSH dm init: Set file local variable static dm ioctl: Fix compilation warning dm raid: Remove empty if statement dm verity: Fix compilation warning dm crypt: Enable zoned block device support dm crypt: add flags to optionally bypass kcryptd workqueues dm bufio: do buffer cleanup from a workqueue dm rq: don't call blk_mq_queue_stopped() in dm_stop_queue() dm dust: add interface to list all badblocks dm dust: report some message results directly back to user dm verity: add "panic_on_corruption" error handling mode dm mpath: use double checked locking in fast path dm mpath: rename current_pgpath to pgpath in multipath_prepare_ioctl dm mpath: rework __map_bio() dm mpath: factor out multipath_queue_bio dm mpath: push locking down to must_push_back_rq() dm mpath: take m->lock spinlock when testing QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH dm mpath: changes from initial m->flags locking audit

Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2020-08-05T05:47:54+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a while to come. Changes include: - Some new Chinese translations - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs - Some block-mq documentation - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:) - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more" * tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors docs: ia64: correct typo mailmap: add entry for doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location devices.txt: document rfkill allocation PCI: correct flag name docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory ...

dm dust: add interface to list all badblocks

2020-07-20T15:17:41+00:00

This interface may help anyone who want to know all badblocks without querying for each block. [Bryan: DMEMIT message if no blocks are in the bad block list.] Signed-off-by: yangerkun Signed-off-by: Bryan Gurney Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm dust: report some message results directly back to user

2020-07-20T15:17:34+00:00

Some messages (queryblock, countbadblocks, removebadblock) are best reported directly to user directly. Do so with DMEMIT. [Bryan: maintain __func__ output in DMEMIT messages] Signed-off-by: yangerkun Signed-off-by: Bryan Gurney Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm verity: add "panic_on_corruption" error handling mode

2020-07-13T15:47:33+00:00

Samsung smart phones may need the ability to panic on corruption. Not all devices provide the bootloader support needed to use the existing "restart_on_corruption" mode. Additional details for why Samsung needs this new mode can be found here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2020-June/msg00235.html Signed-off-by: jhs2.lee Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: LVM

2020-07-05T20:28:27+00:00

Rationale: Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate. Deterministic algorithm: For each file: If not .svg: For each line: If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`: For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`: If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions return 200 OK and serve the same content: Replace HTTP with HTTPS. Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200627103138.71885-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation/admin-guide: dm-integrity: drop doubled words

2020-07-05T20:01:48+00:00

Drop the doubled words "on" and "the". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200704032020.21923-4-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet