This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
loop: fix the the direct I/O support check when used on top of block devices
to the 6.1-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:
loop-fix-the-the-direct-i-o-support-check-when-used-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 834683f0b84b229bde705348535f1fb82cbb64b3
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jan 17 18:59:01 2024 +0100
loop: fix the the direct I/O support check when used on top of block devices
[ Upstream commit baa7d536077dcdfe2b70c476a8873d1745d3de0f ]
__loop_update_dio only checks the alignment requirement for block backed
file systems, but misses them for the case where the loop device is
created directly on top of another block device. Due to this creating
a loop device with default option plus the direct I/O flag on a > 512 byte
sector size file system will lead to incorrect I/O being submitted to the
lower block device and a lot of error from the lock layer. This can
be seen with xfstests generic/563.
Fix the code in __loop_update_dio by factoring the alignment check into
a helper, and calling that also for the struct block_device of a block
device inode.
Also remove the TODO comment talking about dynamically switching between
buffered and direct I/O, which is a would be a recipe for horrible
performance and occasional data loss.
Fixes: 2e5ab5f379f9 ("block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240117175901.871796-1-hch@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 127e3ceb5979..12ff6f58b8a9 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -165,39 +165,37 @@ static loff_t get_loop_size(struct loop_device *lo, struct file *file)
return get_size(lo->lo_offset, lo->lo_sizelimit, file);
}
+/*
+ * We support direct I/O only if lo_offset is aligned with the logical I/O size
+ * of backing device, and the logical block size of loop is bigger than that of
+ * the backing device.
+ */
+static bool lo_bdev_can_use_dio(struct loop_device *lo,
+ struct block_device *backing_bdev)
+{
+ unsigned short sb_bsize = bdev_logical_block_size(backing_bdev);
+
+ if (queue_logical_block_size(lo->lo_queue) < sb_bsize)
+ return false;
+ if (lo->lo_offset & (sb_bsize - 1))
+ return false;
+ return true;
+}
+
static void __loop_update_dio(struct loop_device *lo, bool dio)
{
struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file;
- struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
- struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
- unsigned short sb_bsize = 0;
- unsigned dio_align = 0;
+ struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
+ struct block_device *backing_bdev = NULL;
bool use_dio;
- if (inode->i_sb->s_bdev) {
- sb_bsize = bdev_logical_block_size(inode->i_sb->s_bdev);
- dio_align = sb_bsize - 1;
- }
+ if (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode))
+ backing_bdev = I_BDEV(inode);
+ else if (inode->i_sb->s_bdev)
+ backing_bdev = inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
- /*
- * We support direct I/O only if lo_offset is aligned with the
- * logical I/O size of backing device, and the logical block
- * size of loop is bigger than the backing device's.
- *
- * TODO: the above condition may be loosed in the future, and
- * direct I/O may be switched runtime at that time because most
- * of requests in sane applications should be PAGE_SIZE aligned
- */
- if (dio) {
- if (queue_logical_block_size(lo->lo_queue) >= sb_bsize &&
- !(lo->lo_offset & dio_align) &&
- (file->f_mode & FMODE_CAN_ODIRECT))
- use_dio = true;
- else
- use_dio = false;
- } else {
- use_dio = false;
- }
+ use_dio = dio && (file->f_mode & FMODE_CAN_ODIRECT) &&
+ (!backing_bdev || lo_bdev_can_use_dio(lo, backing_bdev));
if (lo->use_dio == use_dio)
return;
