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<title>dm-ebs: Mark full buffer dirty even on partial write</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:19:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)</name>
<email>urezki@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2025-11-17T10:59:45+00:00</published>
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commit 7fa3e7d114abc9cc71cc35d768e116641074ddb4 upstream.

When performing a read-modify-write(RMW) operation, any modification
to a buffered block must cause the entire buffer to be marked dirty.

Marking only a subrange as dirty is incorrect because the underlying
device block size(ubs) defines the minimum read/write granularity. A
lower device can perform I/O only on regions which are fully aligned
and sized to ubs.

This change ensures that write-back operations always occur in full
ubs-sized chunks, matching the intended emulation semantics of the
EBS target.

As for user space visible impact, submitting sub-ubs and misaligned
I/O for devices which are tuned to ubs sizes only, will reject such
requests, therefore it can lead to losing data. Example:

1) Create a 8K nvme device in qemu by adding

-device nvme,drive=drv0,serial=foo,logical_block_size=8192,physical_block_size=8192

2) Setup dm-ebs to emulate 512B to 8K mapping

urezki@pc638:~/bin$ cat dmsetup.sh

lower=/dev/nvme0n1
len=$(blockdev --getsz "$lower")

echo "0 $len ebs $lower 0 1 16" | dmsetup create nvme-8k
urezki@pc638:~/bin$

offset 0, ebs=1 and ubs=16(in sectors).

3) Create an ext4 filesystem(default 4K block size)

urezki@pc638:~/bin$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/dm-0
mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Discarding device blocks: done
Creating filesystem with 2072576 4k blocks and 518144 inodes
Filesystem UUID: bd0b6ca6-0506-4e31-86da-8d22c9d50b63
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: mkfs.ext4: Input/output error while writing out and closing file system
urezki@pc638:~/bin$ dmesg

&lt;snip&gt;
[ 1618.875449] buffer_io_error: 1028 callbacks suppressed
[ 1618.875456] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 0, lost async page write
[ 1618.875527] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 1, lost async page write
[ 1618.875602] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 2, lost async page write
[ 1618.875620] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 3, lost async page write
[ 1618.875639] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 4, lost async page write
[ 1618.894316] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 5, lost async page write
[ 1618.894358] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 6, lost async page write
[ 1618.894380] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 7, lost async page write
[ 1618.894405] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 8, lost async page write
[ 1618.894427] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 9, lost async page write
&lt;snip&gt;

Many I/O errors because the lower 8K device rejects sub-ubs/misaligned
requests.

with a patch:

urezki@pc638:~/bin$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/dm-0
mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Discarding device blocks: done
Creating filesystem with 2072576 4k blocks and 518144 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 9b54f44f-ef55-4bd4-9e40-c8b775a616ac
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

urezki@pc638:~/bin$ sudo mount /dev/dm-0 /mnt/
urezki@pc638:~/bin$ ls -al /mnt/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Oct 17 15:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root  4096 Jul 10 19:42 ..
drwx------  2 root root 16384 Oct 17 15:13 lost+found
urezki@pc638:~/bin$

After this change: mkfs completes; mount succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>dm-ebs: fix prefetch-vs-suspend race</title>
<updated>2025-04-25T08:43:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-03-28T15:19:07+00:00</published>
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commit 9c565428788fb9b49066f94ab7b10efc686a0a4c upstream.

There's a possible race condition in dm-ebs - dm bufio prefetch may be in
progress while the device is suspended. Fix this by calling
dm_bufio_client_reset in the postsuspend hook.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm-ebs: don't set the flag DM_TARGET_PASSES_INTEGRITY</title>
<updated>2025-01-17T12:34:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-07T16:47:01+00:00</published>
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commit 47f33c27fc9565fb0bc7dfb76be08d445cd3d236 upstream.

dm-ebs uses dm-bufio to process requests that are not aligned on logical
sector size. dm-bufio doesn't support passing integrity data (and it is
unclear how should it do it), so we shouldn't set the
DM_TARGET_PASSES_INTEGRITY flag.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d3c7b35c20d6 ("dm: add emulated block size target")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: change "unsigned" to "unsigned int"</title>
<updated>2023-04-13T14:55:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinz Mauelshagen</name>
<email>heinzm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-25T20:14:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 86a3238c7b9b759cb864f4f768ab2e24687dc0e6 ]

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: f7b58a69fad9 ("dm: fix improper splitting for abnormal bios")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.0/dm-changes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2022-08-06T18:09:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-06T18:09:55+00:00</published>
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Pull more device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Add flags argument to dm_bufio_client_create and introduce
   DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP flag to have dm-bufio use spinlock rather
   than mutex for its locking.

 - Add optional "try_verify_in_tasklet" feature to DM verity target.
   This feature gives users the option to improve IO latency by using a
   tasklet to verify, using hashes in bufio's cache, rather than wait to
   schedule a work item via workqueue. But if there is a bufio cache
   miss, or an error, then the tasklet will fallback to using workqueue.

 - Incremental changes to both dm-bufio and the DM verity target to use
   jump_label to minimize cost of branching associated with the niche
   "try_verify_in_tasklet" feature. DM-bufio in particular is used by
   quite a few other DM targets so it doesn't make sense to incur
   additional bufio cost in those targets purely for the benefit of this
   niche verity feature if the feature isn't ever used.

 - Optimize verity_verify_io, which is used by both workqueue and
   tasklet based verification, if FEC is not configured or tasklet based
   verification isn't used.

 - Remove DM verity target's verify_wq's use of the WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE
   flag since it uses WQ_UNBOUND. Also, use the WQ_HIGHPRI flag if
   "try_verify_in_tasklet" is specified.

* tag 'for-6.0/dm-changes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm verity: have verify_wq use WQ_HIGHPRI if "try_verify_in_tasklet"
  dm verity: remove WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE flag since using WQ_UNBOUND
  dm verity: only copy bvec_iter in verity_verify_io if in_tasklet
  dm verity: optimize verity_verify_io if FEC not configured
  dm verity: conditionally enable branching for "try_verify_in_tasklet"
  dm bufio: conditionally enable branching for DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP
  dm verity: allow optional args to alter primary args handling
  dm verity: Add optional "try_verify_in_tasklet" feature
  dm bufio: Add DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP flag
  dm bufio: Add flags argument to dm_bufio_client_create
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<title>dm bufio: Add flags argument to dm_bufio_client_create</title>
<updated>2022-07-28T21:46:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Huckleberry</name>
<email>nhuck@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-22T09:38:21+00:00</published>
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Add a flags argument to dm_bufio_client_create and update all the
callers. This is in preparation to add the DM_BUFIO_NO_SLEEP flag.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry &lt;nhuck@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>dm/ebs: Change 'int rw' into 'enum req_op op'</title>
<updated>2022-07-14T18:14:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bvanassche@acm.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-14T18:06:50+00:00</published>
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Improve static type checking by using type 'enum req_op' instead of 'int'.
Make the role of the 'rw' arguments more clear by renaming these into
'op' (operation). This patch does not change any functionality since
REQ_OP_READ = READ = 0 and REQ_OP_WRITE = WRITE = 1.

Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220714180729.1065367-25-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>scsi: dm: Remove WRITE_SAME support</title>
<updated>2022-02-23T02:11:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-09T08:28:27+00:00</published>
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There are no more end-users of REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME left, so we can start
deleting it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220209082828.2629273-7-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>dm: use bdev_nr_sectors and bdev_nr_bytes instead of open coding them</title>
<updated>2021-10-18T20:43:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-18T10:11:05+00:00</published>
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Use the proper helpers to read the block device size.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018101130.1838532-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'for-5.15/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2021-08-31T21:55:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-31T21:55:09+00:00</published>
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Add DM infrastructure for IMA-based remote attestion. These changes
   are the basis for deploying DM-based storage in a "cloud" that must
   validate configurations end-users run to maintain trust. These DM
   changes allow supported DM targets' configurations to be measured via
   IMA. But the policy and enforcement (of which configurations are
   valid) is managed by something outside the kernel (e.g. Keylime).

 - Fix DM crypt scalability regression on systems with many cpus due to
   percpu_counter spinlock contention in crypt_page_alloc().

 - Use in_hardirq() instead of deprecated in_irq() in DM crypt.

 - Add event counters to DM writecache to allow users to further assess
   how the writecache is performing.

 - Various code cleanup in DM writecache's main IO mapping function.

* tag 'for-5.15/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm crypt: use in_hardirq() instead of deprecated in_irq()
  dm ima: update dm documentation for ima measurement support
  dm ima: update dm target attributes for ima measurements
  dm ima: add a warning in dm_init if duplicate ima events are not measured
  dm ima: prefix ima event name related to device mapper with dm_
  dm ima: add version info to dm related events in ima log
  dm ima: prefix dm table hashes in ima log with hash algorithm
  dm crypt: Avoid percpu_counter spinlock contention in crypt_page_alloc()
  dm: add documentation for IMA measurement support
  dm: update target status functions to support IMA measurement
  dm ima: measure data on device rename
  dm ima: measure data on table clear
  dm ima: measure data on device remove
  dm ima: measure data on device resume
  dm ima: measure data on table load
  dm writecache: add event counters
  dm writecache: report invalid return from writecache_map helpers
  dm writecache: further writecache_map() cleanup
  dm writecache: factor out writecache_map_remap_origin()
  dm writecache: split up writecache_map() to improve code readability
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