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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/block/brd.c, branch v4.14.85</title>
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<updated>2017-09-25T14:56:05+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>brd: fix overflow in __brd_direct_access</title>
<updated>2017-09-25T14:56:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-13T13:17:57+00:00</published>
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The code in __brd_direct_access multiplies the pgoff variable by page size
and divides it by 512. It can cause overflow on 32-bit architectures. The
overflow happens if we create ramdisk larger than 4G and use it as a
sparse device.

This patch replaces multiplication and division with multiplication by the
number of sectors per page.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 1647b9b959c7 ("brd: add dax_operations support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 4.12+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2017-09-07T18:59:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-07T18:59:42+00:00</published>
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the first pull request for 4.14, containing most of the code
  changes. It's a quiet series this round, which I think we needed after
  the churn of the last few series. This contains:

   - Fix for a registration race in loop, from Anton Volkov.

   - Overflow complaint fix from Arnd for DAC960.

   - Series of drbd changes from the usual suspects.

   - Conversion of the stec/skd driver to blk-mq. From Bart.

   - A few BFQ improvements/fixes from Paolo.

   - CFQ improvement from Ritesh, allowing idling for group idle.

   - A few fixes found by Dan's smatch, courtesy of Dan.

   - A warning fixup for a race between changing the IO scheduler and
     device remova. From David Jeffery.

   - A few nbd fixes from Josef.

   - Support for cgroup info in blktrace, from Shaohua.

   - Also from Shaohua, new features in the null_blk driver to allow it
     to actually hold data, among other things.

   - Various corner cases and error handling fixes from Weiping Zhang.

   - Improvements to the IO stats tracking for blk-mq from me. Can
     drastically improve performance for fast devices and/or big
     machines.

   - Series from Christoph removing bi_bdev as being needed for IO
     submission, in preparation for nvme multipathing code.

   - Series from Bart, including various cleanups and fixes for switch
     fall through case complaints"

* 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (162 commits)
  kernfs: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL
  drbd: remove BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag from drbd_{md_,}io_bio_set
  drbd: Fix allyesconfig build, fix recent commit
  drbd: switch from kmalloc() to kmalloc_array()
  drbd: abort drbd_start_resync if there is no connection
  drbd: move global variables to drbd namespace and make some static
  drbd: rename "usermode_helper" to "drbd_usermode_helper"
  drbd: fix race between handshake and admin disconnect/down
  drbd: fix potential deadlock when trying to detach during handshake
  drbd: A single dot should be put into a sequence.
  drbd: fix rmmod cleanup, remove _all_ debugfs entries
  drbd: Use setup_timer() instead of init_timer() to simplify the code.
  drbd: fix potential get_ldev/put_ldev refcount imbalance during attach
  drbd: new disk-option disable-write-same
  drbd: Fix resource role for newly created resources in events2
  drbd: mark symbols static where possible
  drbd: Send P_NEG_ACK upon write error in protocol != C
  drbd: add explicit plugging when submitting batches
  drbd: change list_for_each_safe to while(list_first_entry_or_null)
  drbd: introduce drbd_recv_header_maybe_unplug
  ...
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<entry>
<title>block, THP: make block_device_operations.rw_page support THP</title>
<updated>2017-09-07T00:27:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-06T23:22:27+00:00</published>
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The .rw_page in struct block_device_operations is used by the swap
subsystem to read/write the page contents from/into the corresponding
swap slot in the swap device.  To support the THP (Transparent Huge
Page) swap optimization, the .rw_page is enhanced to support to
read/write THP if possible.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724051840.2309-6-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@intel.com&gt; [for brd.c, zram_drv.c, pmem.c]
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vishal L Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index</title>
<updated>2017-08-23T18:49:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-23T17:10:32+00:00</published>
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This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O.  The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open.  Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).

For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device.  But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.

Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: fix rd_size declaration</title>
<updated>2017-07-10T23:32:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-10T22:51:10+00:00</published>
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The global variable 'rd_size' is declared as 'int' in source file
arch/arm/kernel/atags_parse.c and as 'unsigned long' in
drivers/block/brd.c.  Fix this inconsistency.

Additionally, remove the declarations of rd_image_start, rd_prompt and
rd_doload from parse_tag_ramdisk() since these duplicate existing
declarations in &lt;linux/initrd.h&gt;.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170627065024.12347-1-bart.vanassche@wdc.com
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jason Yan &lt;yanaijie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Zhaohongjiang &lt;zhaohongjiang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaoxie@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-07-07T16:44:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-07T16:44:06+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "libnvdimm updates for the latest ACPI and UEFI specifications. This
  pull request also includes new 'struct dax_operations' enabling to
  undo the abuse of copy_user_nocache() for copy operations to pmem.

  The dax work originally missed 4.12 to address concerns raised by Al.

  Summary:

   - Introduce the _flushcache() family of memory copy helpers and use
     them for persistent memory write operations on x86. The
     _flushcache() semantic indicates that the cache is either bypassed
     for the copy operation (movnt) or any lines dirtied by the copy
     operation are written back (clwb, clflushopt, or clflush).

   - Extend dax_operations with -&gt;copy_from_iter() and -&gt;flush()
     operations. These operations and other infrastructure updates allow
     all persistent memory specific dax functionality to be pushed into
     libnvdimm and the pmem driver directly. It also allows dax-specific
     sysfs attributes to be linked to a host device, for example:
     /sys/block/pmem0/dax/write_cache

   - Add support for the new NVDIMM platform/firmware mechanisms
     introduced in ACPI 6.2 and UEFI 2.7. This support includes the v1.2
     namespace label format, extensions to the address-range-scrub
     command set, new error injection commands, and a new BTT
     (block-translation-table) layout. These updates support inter-OS
     and pre-OS compatibility.

   - Fix a longstanding memory corruption bug in nfit_test.

   - Make the pmem and nvdimm-region 'badblocks' sysfs files poll(2)
     capable.

   - Miscellaneous fixes and small updates across libnvdimm and the nfit
     driver.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed: commit
  6aa734a2f38e ("libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks'
  sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime") was reviewed by Toshi Kani
  &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (42 commits)
  libnvdimm, namespace: record 'lbasize' for pmem namespaces
  acpi/nfit: Issue Start ARS to retrieve existing records
  libnvdimm: New ACPI 6.2 DSM functions
  acpi, nfit: Show bus_dsm_mask in sysfs
  libnvdimm, acpi, nfit: Add bus level dsm mask for pass thru.
  acpi, nfit: Enable DSM pass thru for root functions.
  libnvdimm: passthru functions clear to send
  libnvdimm, btt: convert some info messages to warn/err
  libnvdimm, region, pmem: fix 'badblocks' sysfs_get_dirent() reference lifetime
  libnvdimm: fix the clear-error check in nsio_rw_bytes
  libnvdimm, btt: fix btt_rw_page not returning errors
  acpi, nfit: quiet invalid block-aperture-region warnings
  libnvdimm, btt: BTT updates for UEFI 2.7 format
  acpi, nfit: constify *_attribute_group
  libnvdimm, pmem: disable dax flushing when pmem is fronting a volatile region
  libnvdimm, pmem, dax: export a cache control attribute
  dax: convert to bitmask for flags
  dax: remove default copy_from_iter fallback
  libnvdimm, nfit: enable support for volatile ranges
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix persistence warning
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: remove default copy_from_iter fallback</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T23:44:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-27T20:06:22+00:00</published>
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Require all dax-drivers to register a -&gt;copy_from_iter() operation so
that it is clear which dax_operations are optional and which must be
implemented for filesystem-dax to operate.

Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>block: don't bother with bounce limits for make_request drivers</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T18:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-19T07:26:23+00:00</published>
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We only call blk_queue_bounce for request-based drivers, so stop messing
with it for make_request based drivers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-05-06T01:49:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-06T01:49:20+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this has been in multiple -next releases. There were a few
  late breaking fixes and small features that got added in the last
  couple days, but the whole set has received a build success
  notification from the kbuild robot.

  Change summary:

   - Region media error reporting: A libnvdimm region device is the
     parent to one or more namespaces. To date, media errors have been
     reported via the "badblocks" attribute attached to pmem block
     devices for namespaces in "raw" or "memory" mode. Given that
     namespaces can be in "device-dax" or "btt-sector" mode this new
     interface reports media errors generically, i.e. independent of
     namespace modes or state.

     This subsequently allows userspace tooling to craft "ACPI 6.1
     Section 9.20.7.6 Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error"
     requests and submit them via the ioctl path for NVDIMM root bus
     devices.

   - Introduce 'struct dax_device' and 'struct dax_operations': Prompted
     by a request from Linus and feedback from Christoph this allows for
     dax capable drivers to publish their own custom dax operations.
     This fixes the broken assumption that all dax operations are
     related to a persistent memory device, and makes it easier for
     other architectures and platforms to add customized persistent
     memory support.

   - 'libnvdimm' core updates: A new "deep_flush" sysfs attribute is
     available for storage appliance applications to manually trigger
     memory controllers to drain write-pending buffers that would
     otherwise be flushed automatically by the platform ADR
     (asynchronous-DRAM-refresh) mechanism at a power loss event.
     Support for "locked" DIMMs is included to prevent namespaces from
     surfacing when the namespace label data area is locked. Finally,
     fixes for various reported deadlocks and crashes, also tagged for
     -stable.

   - ACPI / nfit driver updates: General updates of the nfit driver to
     add DSM command overrides, ACPI 6.1 health state flags support, DSM
     payload debug available by default, and various fixes.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed:

   - commmit 565851c972b5 "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock":
     Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yizhan@redhat.com&gt;

   - commit 23f498448362 "libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing"
     Tested-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (52 commits)
  libnvdimm, pfn: fix 'npfns' vs section alignment
  libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas
  libnvdimm: convert NDD_ flags to use bitops, introduce NDD_LOCKED
  brd: fix uninitialized use of brd-&gt;dax_dev
  block, dax: use correct format string in bdev_dax_supported
  device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock
  libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking"
  libnvdimm: fix nvdimm_bus_lock() vs device_lock() ordering
  libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing
  acpi, nfit: kill ACPI_NFIT_DEBUG
  libnvdimm: fix clear length of nvdimm_forget_poison()
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify
  libnvdimm, region: sysfs trigger for nvdimm_flush()
  libnvdimm: fix phys_addr for nvdimm_clear_poison
  x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem()
  block: remove block_device_operations -&gt;direct_access()
  block, dax: convert bdev_dax_supported() to dax_direct_access()
  filesystem-dax: convert to dax_direct_access()
  Revert "block: use DAX for partition table reads"
  ext2, ext4, xfs: retrieve dax_device for iomap operations
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>brd: fix uninitialized use of brd-&gt;dax_dev</title>
<updated>2017-05-03T18:30:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerald Schaefer</name>
<email>gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T12:56:02+00:00</published>
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commit 1647b9b9 "brd: add dax_operations support" introduced the allocation
and freeing of a dax_device, but the allocated dax_device is not stored
into the brd_device, so brd_del_one() will eventually operate on an
uninitialized brd-&gt;dax_dev.

Fix this by storing the allocated dax_device to brd-&gt;dax_dev.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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