[ 41/77] nbd: fsync and kill block device on shutdown

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Mar 01 2013 - 15:13:54 EST


3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 3a2d63f87989e01437ba994df5f297528c353d7d upstream.

There are two problems with shutdown in the NBD driver.

1: Receiving the NBD_DISCONNECT ioctl does not sync the filesystem.

This patch adds the sync operation into __nbd_ioctl()'s
NBD_DISCONNECT handler. This is useful because BLKFLSBUF is restricted
to processes that have CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and the NBD client may not
possess it (fsync of the block device does not sync the filesystem,
either).

2: Once we clear the socket we have no guarantee that later reads will
come from the same backing storage.

The patch adds calls to kill_bdev() in __nbd_ioctl()'s socket
clearing code so the page cache is cleaned, lest reads that hit on the
page cache will return stale data from the previously-accessible disk.

Example:

# qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sr0
# file -s /dev/nbd0
/dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.
# qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
# qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sda
# file -s /dev/nbd0
/dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.

While /dev/sda has:

# file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: x86 boot sector; etc.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/block/nbd.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -595,12 +595,20 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_devi
struct request sreq;

dev_info(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), "NBD_DISCONNECT\n");
+ if (!nbd->sock)
+ return -EINVAL;

+ mutex_unlock(&nbd->tx_lock);
+ fsync_bdev(bdev);
+ mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock);
blk_rq_init(NULL, &sreq);
sreq.cmd_type = REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL;
nbd_cmd(&sreq) = NBD_CMD_DISC;
+
+ /* Check again after getting mutex back. */
if (!nbd->sock)
return -EINVAL;
+
nbd_send_req(nbd, &sreq);
return 0;
}
@@ -614,6 +622,7 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_devi
nbd_clear_que(nbd);
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&nbd->queue_head));
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&nbd->waiting_queue));
+ kill_bdev(bdev);
if (file)
fput(file);
return 0;
@@ -702,6 +711,7 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_devi
nbd->file = NULL;
nbd_clear_que(nbd);
dev_warn(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), "queue cleared\n");
+ kill_bdev(bdev);
queue_flag_clear_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, nbd->disk->queue);
if (file)
fput(file);


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