kernel/linux.git/drivers/block/Kconfig, branch v6.1.168

ublk_drv: comment on ublk_driver entry of Kconfig

2022-10-31T13:23:24+00:00

Add help info for choosing to build ublk_drv as module or builtin. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Reviewed-by: ZiyangZhang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221029010432.598367-3-ming.lei@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

remove the sx8 block driver

2022-08-02T23:22:46+00:00

This driver is for fairly obscure hardware, and has only seen random drive-by changes after the maintainer stopped working on it in 2005 (about a year and a half after it was introduced). It has some "interesting" block layer interactions, so let's just drop it unless anyone complains. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220721064102.1715460-1-hch@lst.de [axboe: fix date typo, it was in 2005, not 2015] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

ublk_drv: add io_uring based userspace block driver

2022-07-14T13:15:28+00:00

This is the driver part of userspace block driver(ublk driver), the other part is userspace daemon part(ublksrv)[1]. The two parts communicate by io_uring's IORING_OP_URING_CMD with one shared cmd buffer for storing io command, and the buffer is read only for ublksrv, each io command is indexed by io request tag directly, and is written by ublk driver. For example, when one READ io request is submitted to ublk block driver, ublk driver stores the io command into cmd buffer first, then completes one IORING_OP_URING_CMD for notifying ublksrv, and the URING_CMD is issued to ublk driver beforehand by ublksrv for getting notification of any new io request, and each URING_CMD is associated with one io request by tag. After ublksrv gets the io command, it translates and handles the ublk io request, such as, for the ublk-loop target, ublksrv translates the request into same request on another file or disk, like the kernel loop block driver. In ublksrv's implementation, the io is still handled by io_uring, and share same ring with IORING_OP_URING_CMD command. When the target io request is done, the same IORING_OP_URING_CMD is issued to ublk driver for both committing io request result and getting future notification of new io request. Another thing done by ublk driver is to copy data between kernel io request and ublksrv's io buffer: 1) before ubsrv handles WRITE request, copy the request's data into ublksrv's userspace io buffer, so that ublksrv can handle the write request 2) after ubsrv handles READ request, copy ublksrv's userspace io buffer into this READ request, then ublk driver can complete the READ request Zero copy may be switched if mm is ready to support it. ublk driver doesn't handle any logic of the specific user space driver, so it is small/simple enough. [1] ublksrv https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220713140711.97356-2-ming.lei@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

floppy: disable FDRAWCMD by default

2022-04-27T16:41:54+00:00

Minh Yuan reported a concurrency use-after-free issue in the floppy code between raw_cmd_ioctl and seek_interrupt. [ It turns out this has been around, and that others have reported the KASAN splats over the years, but Minh Yuan had a reproducer for it and so gets primary credit for reporting it for this fix - Linus ] The problem is, this driver tends to break very easily and nowadays, nobody is expected to use FDRAWCMD anyway since it was used to manipulate non-standard formats. The risk of breaking the driver is higher than the risk presented by this race, and accessing the device requires privileges anyway. Let's just add a config option to completely disable this ioctl and leave it disabled by default. Distros shouldn't use it, and only those running on antique hardware might need to enable it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000b71cdd05d703f6bf@google.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKcFiNC=MfYVW-Jt9A3=FPJpTwCD2PL_ULNCpsCVE5s8ZeBQgQ@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAEAjamu1FRhz6StCe_55XY5s389ZP_xmCF69k987En+1z53=eg@mail.gmail.com Reported-by: Minh Yuan Reported-by: syzbot+8e8958586909d62b6840@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: cruise k Reported-by: Kyungtae Kim Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Tested-by: Denis Efremov Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: remove the rsxx driver

2021-12-16T17:57:04+00:00

This driver was for rare and shortlived high end enterprise hardware and hasn't been maintained since 2014, which also means it never got converted to use blk-mq. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

2021-11-03T22:00:39+00:00

Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin: "vhost and virtio fixes and features: - Hardening work by Jason - vdpa driver for Alibaba ENI - Performance tweaks for virtio blk - virtio rng rework using an internal buffer - mac/mtu programming for mlx5 vdpa - Misc fixes, cleanups" * tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (45 commits) vdpa/mlx5: Forward only packets with allowed MAC address vdpa/mlx5: Support configuration of MAC vdpa/mlx5: Fix clearing of VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC feature bit vdpa_sim_net: Enable user to set mac address and mtu vdpa: Enable user to set mac and mtu of vdpa device vdpa: Use kernel coding style for structure comments vdpa: Introduce query of device config layout vdpa: Introduce and use vdpa device get, set config helpers virtio-scsi: don't let virtio core to validate used buffer length virtio-blk: don't let virtio core to validate used length virtio-net: don't let virtio core to validate used length virtio_ring: validate used buffer length virtio_blk: correct types for status handling virtio_blk: allow 0 as num_request_queues i2c: virtio: Add support for zero-length requests virtio-blk: fixup coccinelle warnings virtio_ring: fix typos in vring_desc_extra virtio-pci: harden INTX interrupts virtio_pci: harden MSI-X interrupts virtio_config: introduce a new .enable_cbs method ...

Merge tag 'for-5.16/passthrough-flag-2021-10-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2021-11-01T17:12:44+00:00

Pull QUEUE_FLAG_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH removal from Jens Axboe: "This contains a series leading to the removal of the QUEUE_FLAG_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH queue flag" * tag 'for-5.16/passthrough-flag-2021-10-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: remove blk_{get,put}_request block: remove QUEUE_FLAG_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH block: remove the initialize_rq_fn blk_mq_ops method scsi: add a scsi_alloc_request helper bsg-lib: initialize the bsg_job in bsg_transport_sg_io_fn nfsd/blocklayout: use ->get_unique_id instead of sending SCSI commands sd: implement ->get_unique_id block: add a ->get_unique_id method

virtio-blk: avoid preallocating big SGL for data

2021-11-01T08:29:47+00:00

No need to pre-allocate a big buffer for the IO SGL anymore. If a device has lots of deep queues, preallocation for the sg list can consume substantial amounts of memory. For HW virtio-blk device, nr_hw_queues can be 64 or 128 and each queue's depth might be 128. This means the resulting preallocation for the data SGLs is big. Switch to runtime allocation for SGL for lists longer than 2 entries. This is the approach used by NVMe drivers so it should be reasonable for virtio block as well. Runtime SGL allocation has always been the case for the legacy I/O path so this is nothing new. The preallocated small SGL depends on SG_CHAIN so if the ARCH doesn't support SG_CHAIN, use only runtime allocation for the SGL. Re-organize the setup of the IO request to fit the new sg chain mechanism. No performance degradation was seen (fio libaio engine with 16 jobs and 128 iodepth): IO size IOPs Rand Read (before/after) IOPs Rand Write (before/after) -------- --------------------------------- ---------------------------------- 512B 318K/316K 329K/325K 4KB 323K/321K 353K/349K 16KB 199K/208K 250K/275K 128KB 36K/36.1K 39.2K/41.7K Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy Reviewed-by: Israel Rukshin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210901131434.31158-1-mgurtovoy@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Feng Li Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Tested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann # kconfig fixups Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

block: remove support for cryptoloop and the xor transfer

2021-10-22T14:34:58+00:00

Support for cyrptoloop has been officially marked broken and deprecated in favor of dm-crypt (which supports the same broken algorithms if needed) in Linux 2.6.4 (released in March 2004), and support for it has been entirely removed from losetup in util-linux 2.23 (released in April 2013). The XOR transfer has never been more than a toy to demonstrate the transfer in the bad old times of crypto export restrictions. Remove them as they have some nasty interactions with loop device life times due to the iteration over all loop devices in loop_unregister_transfer. Suggested-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019075639.2333969-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

scsi: add a scsi_alloc_request helper

2021-10-22T14:33:57+00:00

Add a new helper that calls blk_get_request and initializes the scsi_request to avoid the indirect call through ->.initialize_rq_fn. Note that this makes the pktcdvd driver depend on the SCSI core, but given that only SCSI devices support SCSI passthrough requests that is not a functional change. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211021060607.264371-6-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe