This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm cache metadata: do not allow the data block size to change to the 3.15-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: dm-cache-metadata-do-not-allow-the-data-block-size-to-change.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 048e5a07f282c57815b3901d4a68a77fa131ce0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:59:39 -0400 Subject: dm cache metadata: do not allow the data block size to change From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 048e5a07f282c57815b3901d4a68a77fa131ce0a upstream. The block size for the dm-cache's data device must remained fixed for the life of the cache. Disallow any attempt to change the cache's data block size. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c @@ -425,6 +425,15 @@ static int __open_metadata(struct dm_cac disk_super = dm_block_data(sblock); + /* Verify the data block size hasn't changed */ + if (le32_to_cpu(disk_super->data_block_size) != cmd->data_block_size) { + DMERR("changing the data block size (from %u to %llu) is not supported", + le32_to_cpu(disk_super->data_block_size), + (unsigned long long)cmd->data_block_size); + r = -EINVAL; + goto bad; + } + r = __check_incompat_features(disk_super, cmd); if (r < 0) goto bad; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.15/dm-thin-metadata-do-not-allow-the-data-block-size-to-change.patch queue-3.15/dm-cache-metadata-do-not-allow-the-data-block-size-to-change.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html