kernel/linux.git/drivers/mtd/ubi, branch v4.11.5

ubi/upd: Always flush after prepared for an update

2017-03-30T07:27:11+00:00

In commit 6afaf8a484cb ("UBI: flush wl before clearing update marker") I managed to trigger and fix a similar bug. Now here is another version of which I assumed it wouldn't matter back then but it turns out UBI has a check for it and will error out like this: |ubi0 warning: validate_vid_hdr: inconsistent used_ebs |ubi0 error: validate_vid_hdr: inconsistent VID header at PEB 592 All you need to trigger this is? "ubiupdatevol /dev/ubi0_0 file" + a powercut in the middle of the operation. ubi_start_update() sets the update-marker and puts all EBs on the erase list. After that userland can proceed to write new data while the old EB aren't erased completely. A powercut at this point is usually not that much of a tragedy. UBI won't give read access to the static volume because it has the update marker. It will most likely set the corrupted flag because it misses some EBs. So we are all good. Unless the size of the image that has been written differs from the old image in the magnitude of at least one EB. In that case UBI will find two different values for `used_ebs' and refuse to attach the image with the error message mentioned above. So in order not to get in the situation, the patch will ensure that we wait until everything is removed before it tries to write any data. The alternative would be to detect such a case and remove all EBs at the attached time after we processed the volume-table and see the update-marker set. The patch looks bigger and I doubt it is worth it since usually the write() will wait from time to time for a new EB since usually there not that many spare EB that can be used. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available

2017-03-03T01:51:15+00:00

Add a system call to make extended file information available, including file creation and some attribute flags where available through the underlying filesystem. The getattr inode operation is altered to take two additional arguments: a u32 request_mask and an unsigned int flags that indicate the synchronisation mode. This change is propagated to the vfs_getattr*() function. Functions like vfs_stat() are now inline wrappers around new functions vfs_statx() and vfs_statx_fd() to reduce stack usage. ======== OVERVIEW ======== The idea was initially proposed as a set of xattrs that could be retrieved with getxattr(), but the general preference proved to be for a new syscall with an extended stat structure. A number of requests were gathered for features to be included. The following have been included: (1) Make the fields a consistent size on all arches and make them large. (2) Spare space, request flags and information flags are provided for future expansion. (3) Better support for the y2038 problem [Arnd Bergmann] (tv_sec is an __s64). (4) Creation time: The SMB protocol carries the creation time, which could be exported by Samba, which will in turn help CIFS make use of FS-Cache as that can be used for coherency data (stx_btime). This is also specified in NFSv4 as a recommended attribute and could be exported by NFSD [Steve French]. (5) Lightweight stat: Ask for just those details of interest, and allow a netfs (such as NFS) to approximate anything not of interest, possibly without going to the server [Trond Myklebust, Ulrich Drepper, Andreas Dilger] (AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC). (6) Heavyweight stat: Force a netfs to go to the server, even if it thinks its cached attributes are up to date [Trond Myklebust] (AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC). And the following have been left out for future extension: (7) Data version number: Could be used by userspace NFS servers [Aneesh Kumar]. Can also be used to modify fill_post_wcc() in NFSD which retrieves i_version directly, but has just called vfs_getattr(). It could get it from the kstat struct if it used vfs_xgetattr() instead. (There's disagreement on the exact semantics of a single field, since not all filesystems do this the same way). (8) BSD stat compatibility: Including more fields from the BSD stat such as creation time (st_btime) and inode generation number (st_gen) [Jeremy Allison, Bernd Schubert]. (9) Inode generation number: Useful for FUSE and userspace NFS servers [Bernd Schubert]. (This was asked for but later deemed unnecessary with the open-by-handle capability available and caused disagreement as to whether it's a security hole or not). (10) Extra coherency data may be useful in making backups [Andreas Dilger]. (No particular data were offered, but things like last backup timestamp, the data version number and the DOS archive bit would come into this category). (11) Allow the filesystem to indicate what it can/cannot provide: A filesystem can now say it doesn't support a standard stat feature if that isn't available, so if, for instance, inode numbers or UIDs don't exist or are fabricated locally... (This requires a separate system call - I have an fsinfo() call idea for this). (12) Store a 16-byte volume ID in the superblock that can be returned in struct xstat [Steve French]. (Deferred to fsinfo). (13) Include granularity fields in the time data to indicate the granularity of each of the times (NFSv4 time_delta) [Steve French]. (Deferred to fsinfo). (14) FS_IOC_GETFLAGS value. These could be translated to BSD's st_flags. Note that the Linux IOC flags are a mess and filesystems such as Ext4 define flags that aren't in linux/fs.h, so translation in the kernel may be a necessity (or, possibly, we provide the filesystem type too). (Some attributes are made available in stx_attributes, but the general feeling was that the IOC flags were to ext[234]-specific and shouldn't be exposed through statx this way). (15) Mask of features available on file (eg: ACLs, seclabel) [Brad Boyer, Michael Kerrisk]. (Deferred, probably to fsinfo. Finding out if there's an ACL or seclabal might require extra filesystem operations). (16) Femtosecond-resolution timestamps [Dave Chinner]. (A __reserved field has been left in the statx_timestamp struct for this - if there proves to be a need). (17) A set multiple attributes syscall to go with this. =============== NEW SYSTEM CALL =============== The new system call is: int ret = statx(int dfd, const char *filename, unsigned int flags, unsigned int mask, struct statx *buffer); The dfd, filename and flags parameters indicate the file to query, in a similar way to fstatat(). There is no equivalent of lstat() as that can be emulated with statx() by passing AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW in flags. There is also no equivalent of fstat() as that can be emulated by passing a NULL filename to statx() with the fd of interest in dfd. Whether or not statx() synchronises the attributes with the backing store can be controlled by OR'ing a value into the flags argument (this typically only affects network filesystems): (1) AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT tells statx() to behave as stat() does in this respect. (2) AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC will require a network filesystem to synchronise its attributes with the server - which might require data writeback to occur to get the timestamps correct. (3) AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC will suppress synchronisation with the server in a network filesystem. The resulting values should be considered approximate. mask is a bitmask indicating the fields in struct statx that are of interest to the caller. The user should set this to STATX_BASIC_STATS to get the basic set returned by stat(). It should be noted that asking for more information may entail extra I/O operations. buffer points to the destination for the data. This must be 256 bytes in size. ====================== MAIN ATTRIBUTES RECORD ====================== The following structures are defined in which to return the main attribute set: struct statx_timestamp { __s64 tv_sec; __s32 tv_nsec; __s32 __reserved; }; struct statx { __u32 stx_mask; __u32 stx_blksize; __u64 stx_attributes; __u32 stx_nlink; __u32 stx_uid; __u32 stx_gid; __u16 stx_mode; __u16 __spare0[1]; __u64 stx_ino; __u64 stx_size; __u64 stx_blocks; __u64 __spare1[1]; struct statx_timestamp stx_atime; struct statx_timestamp stx_btime; struct statx_timestamp stx_ctime; struct statx_timestamp stx_mtime; __u32 stx_rdev_major; __u32 stx_rdev_minor; __u32 stx_dev_major; __u32 stx_dev_minor; __u64 __spare2[14]; }; The defined bits in request_mask and stx_mask are: STATX_TYPE Want/got stx_mode & S_IFMT STATX_MODE Want/got stx_mode & ~S_IFMT STATX_NLINK Want/got stx_nlink STATX_UID Want/got stx_uid STATX_GID Want/got stx_gid STATX_ATIME Want/got stx_atime{,_ns} STATX_MTIME Want/got stx_mtime{,_ns} STATX_CTIME Want/got stx_ctime{,_ns} STATX_INO Want/got stx_ino STATX_SIZE Want/got stx_size STATX_BLOCKS Want/got stx_blocks STATX_BASIC_STATS [The stuff in the normal stat struct] STATX_BTIME Want/got stx_btime{,_ns} STATX_ALL [All currently available stuff] stx_btime is the file creation time, stx_mask is a bitmask indicating the data provided and __spares*[] are where as-yet undefined fields can be placed. Time fields are structures with separate seconds and nanoseconds fields plus a reserved field in case we want to add even finer resolution. Note that times will be negative if before 1970; in such a case, the nanosecond fields will also be negative if not zero. The bits defined in the stx_attributes field convey information about a file, how it is accessed, where it is and what it does. The following attributes map to FS_*_FL flags and are the same numerical value: STATX_ATTR_COMPRESSED File is compressed by the fs STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE File is marked immutable STATX_ATTR_APPEND File is append-only STATX_ATTR_NODUMP File is not to be dumped STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED File requires key to decrypt in fs Within the kernel, the supported flags are listed by: KSTAT_ATTR_FS_IOC_FLAGS [Are any other IOC flags of sufficient general interest to be exposed through this interface?] New flags include: STATX_ATTR_AUTOMOUNT Object is an automount trigger These are for the use of GUI tools that might want to mark files specially, depending on what they are. Fields in struct statx come in a number of classes: (0) stx_dev_*, stx_blksize. These are local system information and are always available. (1) stx_mode, stx_nlinks, stx_uid, stx_gid, stx_[amc]time, stx_ino, stx_size, stx_blocks. These will be returned whether the caller asks for them or not. The corresponding bits in stx_mask will be set to indicate whether they actually have valid values. If the caller didn't ask for them, then they may be approximated. For example, NFS won't waste any time updating them from the server, unless as a byproduct of updating something requested. If the values don't actually exist for the underlying object (such as UID or GID on a DOS file), then the bit won't be set in the stx_mask, even if the caller asked for the value. In such a case, the returned value will be a fabrication. Note that there are instances where the type might not be valid, for instance Windows reparse points. (2) stx_rdev_*. This will be set only if stx_mode indicates we're looking at a blockdev or a chardev, otherwise will be 0. (3) stx_btime. Similar to (1), except this will be set to 0 if it doesn't exist. ======= TESTING ======= The following test program can be used to test the statx system call: samples/statx/test-statx.c Just compile and run, passing it paths to the files you want to examine. The file is built automatically if CONFIG_SAMPLES is enabled. Here's some example output. Firstly, an NFS directory that crosses to another FSID. Note that the AUTOMOUNT attribute is set because transiting this directory will cause d_automount to be invoked by the VFS. [root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx -A /warthog/data statx(/warthog/data) = 0 results=7ff Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 1048576 directory Device: 00:26 Inode: 1703937 Links: 125 Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: 0 Gid: 4041 Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000 Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000 Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000 Attributes: 0000000000001000 (-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ---m---- --------) Secondly, the result of automounting on that directory. [root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx /warthog/data statx(/warthog/data) = 0 results=7ff Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 1048576 directory Device: 00:27 Inode: 2 Links: 125 Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: 0 Gid: 4041 Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000 Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000 Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000 Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro

block: fold cmd_type into the REQ_OP_ space

2017-01-31T21:00:44+00:00

Instead of keeping two levels of indirection for requests types, fold it all into the operations. The little caveat here is that previously cmd_type only applied to struct request, while the request and bio op fields were set to plain REQ_OP_READ/WRITE even for passthrough operations. Instead this patch adds new REQ_OP_* for SCSI passthrough and driver private requests, althought it has to add two for each so that we can communicate the data in/out nature of the request. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

ubi: fastmap: Fix add_vol() return value test in ubi_attach_fastmap()

2016-10-28T12:48:18+00:00

Commit e96a8a3bb671 ("UBI: Fastmap: Do not add vol if it already exists") introduced a bug by changing the possible error codes returned by add_vol(): - this function no longer returns NULL in case of allocation failure but return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) - when a duplicate entry in the volume RB tree is found it returns ERR_PTR(-EEXIST) instead of ERR_PTR(-EINVAL) Fix the tests done on add_vol() return val to match this new behavior. Fixes: e96a8a3bb671 ("UBI: Fastmap: Do not add vol if it already exists") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon Acked-by: Sheng Yong Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

UBI: Fix crash in try_recover_peb()

2016-10-19T22:06:06+00:00

drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c: In function ‘try_recover_peb’: drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c:744: warning: ‘vid_hdr’ is used uninitialized in this function The pointer vid_hdr is indeed not initialized, leading to a crash when it is dereferenced. Fix this by obtaining the pointer from the VID buffer, like is done everywhere else. Fixes: 3291b52f9ff0acc8 ("UBI: introduce the VID buffer concept") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

ubi: fix swapped arguments to call to ubi_alloc_aeb

2016-10-19T22:06:00+00:00

Static analysis by CoverityScan detected the ec and pnum arguments are in the wrong order on a call to ubi_alloc_aeb. Swap the order to fix this. Fixes: 91f4285fe389a27 ("UBI: provide helpers to allocate and free aeb elements") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

Merge tag 'upstream-4.9-rc1' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubifs

2016-10-11T17:49:44+00:00

Pull UBI/UBIFS updates from Richard Weinberger: "This pull request contains: - Fixes for both UBI and UBIFS - overlayfs support (O_TMPFILE, RENAME_WHITEOUT/EXCHANGE) - Code refactoring for the upcoming MLC support" [ Ugh, we just got rid of the "rename2()" naming for the extended rename functionality. And this re-introduces it in ubifs with the cross- renaming and whiteout support. But rather than do any re-organizations in the merge itself, the naming can be cleaned up later ] * tag 'upstream-4.9-rc1' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubifs: (27 commits) UBIFS: improve function-level documentation ubifs: fix host xattr_len when changing xattr ubifs: Use move variable in ubifs_rename() ubifs: Implement RENAME_EXCHANGE ubifs: Implement RENAME_WHITEOUT ubifs: Implement O_TMPFILE ubi: Fix Fastmap's update_vol() ubi: Fix races around ubi_refill_pools() ubi: Deal with interrupted erasures in WL UBI: introduce the VID buffer concept UBI: hide EBA internals UBI: provide an helper to query LEB information UBI: provide an helper to check whether a LEB is mapped or not UBI: add an helper to check lnum validity UBI: simplify LEB write and atomic LEB change code UBI: simplify recover_peb() code UBI: move the global ech and vidh variables into struct ubi_attach_info UBI: provide helpers to allocate and free aeb elements UBI: fastmap: use ubi_io_{read, write}_data() instead of ubi_io_{read, write}() UBI: fastmap: use ubi_rb_for_each_entry() in unmap_peb() ...

ubi: Fix Fastmap's update_vol()

2016-10-02T20:55:02+00:00

Usually Fastmap is free to consider every PEB in one of the pools as newer than the existing PEB. Since PEBs in a pool are by definition newer than everything else. But update_vol() missed the case that a pool can contain more than one candidate. Cc: Fixes: dbb7d2a88d ("UBI: Add fastmap core") Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

ubi: Fix races around ubi_refill_pools()

2016-10-02T20:54:01+00:00

When writing a new Fastmap the first thing that happens is refilling the pools in memory. At this stage it is possible that new PEBs from the new pools get already claimed and written with data. If this happens before the new Fastmap data structure hits the flash and we face power cut the freshly written PEB will not scanned and unnoticed. Solve the issue by locking the pools until Fastmap is written. Cc: Fixes: dbb7d2a88d ("UBI: Add fastmap core") Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

ubi: Deal with interrupted erasures in WL

2016-10-02T20:49:54+00:00

When Fastmap is used we can face here an -EBADMSG since Fastmap cannot know about unmaps. If the erasure was interrupted the PEB may show ECC errors and UBI would go to ro-mode as it assumes that the PEB was check during attach time, which is not the case with Fastmap. Cc: Fixes: dbb7d2a88d ("UBI: Add fastmap core") Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger