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diff --git a/Documentation/block/ublk.rst b/Documentation/block/ublk.rst index ba45c46cc0da..2916fcf3ab44 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/ublk.rst +++ b/Documentation/block/ublk.rst @@ -144,6 +144,37 @@ managing and controlling ublk devices with help of several control commands: For retrieving device info via ``ublksrv_ctrl_dev_info``. It is the server's responsibility to save IO target specific info in userspace. +- ``UBLK_CMD_GET_DEV_INFO2`` + Same purpose with ``UBLK_CMD_GET_DEV_INFO``, but ublk server has to + provide path of the char device of ``/dev/ublkc*`` for kernel to run + permission check, and this command is added for supporting unprivileged + ublk device, and introduced with ``UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV`` together. + Only the user owning the requested device can retrieve the device info. + + How to deal with userspace/kernel compatibility: + + 1) if kernel is capable of handling ``UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV`` + If ublk server supports ``UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV``: + ublk server should send ``UBLK_CMD_GET_DEV_INFO2``, given anytime + unprivileged application needs to query devices the current user owns, + when the application has no idea if ``UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV`` is set + given the capability info is stateless, and application should always + retrieve it via ``UBLK_CMD_GET_DEV_INFO2`` + + If ublk server doesn't support ``UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV``: + ``UBLK_CMD_GET_DEV_INFO`` is always sent to kernel, and the feature of + UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV isn't available for user + + 2) if kernel isn't capable of handling ``UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV`` + If ublk server supports ``UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV``: + ``UBLK_CMD_GET_DEV_INFO2`` is tried first, and will be failed, then + ``UBLK_CMD_GET_DEV_INFO`` needs to be retried given + ``UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV`` can't be set + + If ublk server doesn't support ``UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV``: + ``UBLK_CMD_GET_DEV_INFO`` is always sent to kernel, and the feature of + ``UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV`` isn't available for user + - ``UBLK_CMD_START_USER_RECOVERY`` This command is valid if ``UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY`` feature is enabled. This @@ -180,6 +211,15 @@ managing and controlling ublk devices with help of several control commands: double-write since the driver may issue the same I/O request twice. It might be useful to a read-only FS or a VM backend. +Unprivileged ublk device is supported by passing ``UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV``. +Once the flag is set, all control commands can be sent by unprivileged +user. Except for command of ``UBLK_CMD_ADD_DEV``, permission check on +the specified char device(``/dev/ublkc*``) is done for all other control +commands by ublk driver, for doing that, path of the char device has to +be provided in these commands' payload from ublk server. With this way, +ublk device becomes container-ware, and device created in one container +can be controlled/accessed just inside this container. + Data plane ---------- @@ -254,15 +294,6 @@ with specified IO tag in the command data: Future development ================== -Container-aware ublk deivice ----------------------------- - -ublk driver doesn't handle any IO logic. Its function is well defined -for now and very limited userspace interfaces are needed, which is also -well defined too. It is possible to make ublk devices container-aware block -devices in future as Stefan Hajnoczi suggested [#stefan]_, by removing -ADMIN privilege. - Zero copy --------- |