Patch "block: get rid of blk_integrity_revalidate()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

block: get rid of blk_integrity_revalidate()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
block-get-rid-of-blk_integrity_revalidate.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:43:20 +0200
Subject: block: get rid of blk_integrity_revalidate()

From: Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]>

commit 19b7ccf8651df09d274671b53039c672a52ad84d upstream.

Commit 25520d55cdb6 ("block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk") introduced blk_integrity_revalidate(), which seems to assume ownership of the stable pages flag and unilaterally clears it if no blk_integrity profile is registered:

    if (bi->profile)
            disk->queue->backing_dev_info->capabilities |=
                    BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;
    else
            disk->queue->backing_dev_info->capabilities &=
                    ~BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;

It's called from revalidate_disk() and rescan_partitions(), making it impossible to enable stable pages for drivers that support partitions and don't use blk_integrity: while the call in revalidate_disk() can be trivially worked around (see zram, which doesn't support partitions and hence gets away with zram_revalidate_disk()), rescan_partitions() can be triggered from userspace at any time. This breaks rbd, where the ceph messenger is responsible for generating/verifying CRCs.

Since blk_integrity_{un,}register() "must" be used for (un)registering the integrity profile with the block layer, move BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES setting there. This way drivers that call blk_integrity_register() and use integrity infrastructure won't interfere with drivers that don't but still want stable pages.

---
 block/blk-integrity.c     |   19 ++-----------------
 block/partition-generic.c |    1 -
 fs/block_dev.c            |    1 -
 include/linux/genhd.h     |    2 --
 4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ void blk_integrity_register(struct gendi
 	bi->tuple_size = template->tuple_size;
 	bi->tag_size = template->tag_size;
 
-	blk_integrity_revalidate(disk);
+	disk->queue->backing_dev_info.capabilities |= BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_integrity_register);
 

@@ -430,26 +430,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_integrity_register);
  */
 void blk_integrity_unregister(struct gendisk *disk)
 {
-	blk_integrity_revalidate(disk);
+	disk->queue->backing_dev_info.capabilities &= ~BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;
 	memset(&disk->queue->integrity, 0, sizeof(struct blk_integrity));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_integrity_unregister);
 
-void blk_integrity_revalidate(struct gendisk *disk)
-{
-	struct blk_integrity *bi = &disk->queue->integrity;
-
-	if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP))
-		return;
-
-	if (bi->profile)
-		disk->queue->backing_dev_info.capabilities |=
-			BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;
-	else
-		disk->queue->backing_dev_info.capabilities &=
-			~BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;
-}
-
 void blk_integrity_add(struct gendisk *disk)
 {
 	if (kobject_init_and_add(&disk->integrity_kobj, &integrity_ktype,

@@ -435,7 +435,6 @@ rescan:
 
 	if (disk->fops->revalidate_disk)
 		disk->fops->revalidate_disk(disk);
-	blk_integrity_revalidate(disk);
 	check_disk_size_change(disk, bdev);
 	bdev->bd_invalidated = 0;
 	if (!get_capacity(disk) || !(state = check_partition(disk, bdev)))

@@ -1098,7 +1098,6 @@ int revalidate_disk(struct gendisk *disk
 
 	if (disk->fops->revalidate_disk)
 		ret = disk->fops->revalidate_disk(disk);
-	blk_integrity_revalidate(disk);
 	bdev = bdget_disk(disk, 0);
 	if (!bdev)
 		return ret;

@@ -742,11 +742,9 @@ static inline void part_nr_sects_write(s
 #if defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY)
 extern void blk_integrity_add(struct gendisk *);
 extern void blk_integrity_del(struct gendisk *);
-extern void blk_integrity_revalidate(struct gendisk *);
 #else	/* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY */
 static inline void blk_integrity_add(struct gendisk *disk) { }
 static inline void blk_integrity_del(struct gendisk *disk) { }
-static inline void blk_integrity_revalidate(struct gendisk *disk) { }
 #endif	/* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY */
 
 #else /* CONFIG_BLOCK */

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/block-get-rid-of-blk_integrity_revalidate.patch