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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug?] blk_queue_may_bounce() has the comparison max_low_pfn and max_pfn wrong way
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:47:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y17GxQf8TV2/zNo1@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221030075032.GC4214@lst.de>

On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 08:50:32AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 05:45:45PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > completion (in NULL_Q_BIO case, at least).  What happens if request
> > gets split and split-off part finishes first with an error?  AFAICS,
> > its ->bi_status will be copied to parent (original bio, the one that
> > covers the tail).  Now the IO on the original bio is over as well
> > and we hit drivers/block/null_blk/main.c:end_cmd().  Suppose this
> > part succeeds; won't we end up overwriting ->bi_status with zero
> > and assuming that the entire thing had succeeded, despite the
> > (now lost) error on the split-off part?
> 
> As a rule of thumb drives should never set bi_status to 0, so null_blk
> here has a bug.  What is missing everywhere is proper memory barriers,
> though.

Something like

static inline void set_bio_status(struct bio *bio, blk_status_t status)
{
	if (unlikely(status))
		cmpxchg(&bio->bi_status, 0, status);
}

with e.g.
        if (bio->bi_status && !dio->bio.bi_status)
		dio->bio.bi_status = bio->bi_status;
in blkdev_bio_end_io() replaced with
	set_bio_status(&dio->bio, bio->bi_status);

perhaps?  That would probably do for almost all users, but...  what about
e.g. drivers/md/raid1.c:fix_sync_read_error()?  Looks like it really
intends non-zero -> zero change; I'm not familiar enough with the guts
of that sucker to tell if it is guaranteed to get no propagation from
another bio...

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-30 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-28 18:02 [bug?] blk_queue_may_bounce() has the comparison max_low_pfn and max_pfn wrong way Al Viro
2022-10-28 18:51 ` Jens Axboe
2022-10-28 19:21   ` Al Viro
2022-10-29 16:45     ` Al Viro
2022-10-30  7:50       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-10-30 18:47         ` Al Viro [this message]
2022-11-01 11:11           ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-10-30  7:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-10-28 19:14 ` Al Viro
2022-10-30  7:45 ` Christoph Hellwig

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