[PATCH 4.17 15/18] Partially revert "block: fail op_is_write() requests to read-only partitions"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-07T18:53:25Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

commit a32e236eb93e62a0f692e79b7c3c9636689559b9 upstream.

It turns out that commit 721c7fc701c7 ("block: fail op_is_write()
requests to read-only partitions"), while obviously correct, causes
problems for some older lvm2 installations.

The reason is that the lvm snapshotting will continue to write to the
snapshow COW volume, even after the volume has been marked read-only.
End result: snapshot failure.

This has actually been fixed in newer version of the lvm2 tool, but the
old tools still exist, and the breakage was reported both in the kernel
bugzilla and in the Debian bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200439
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900442

The lvm2 fix is here

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git;a=commit;h=a6fdb9d9d70f51c49ad11a87ab4243344e6701a3

but until everybody has updated to recent versions, we'll have to weaken
the "never write to read-only partitions" check. It now allows the
write to happen, but causes a warning, something like this:

generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device dm-3 (partno X)
Modules linked in: nf_tables xt_cgroup xt_owner kvm_intel iwlmvm kvm irqbypass iwlwifi
CPU: 1 PID: 77 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 4.17.9-gentoo #3
Hardware name: LENOVO 20B6A019RT/20B6A019RT, BIOS GJET91WW (2.41 ) 09/21/2016
Workqueue: ksnaphd do_metadata
RIP: 0010:generic_make_request_checks+0x4ac/0x600
...
Call Trace:
generic_make_request+0x64/0x400
submit_bio+0x6c/0x140
dispatch_io+0x287/0x430
sync_io+0xc3/0x120
dm_io+0x1f8/0x220
do_metadata+0x1d/0x30
process_one_work+0x1b9/0x3e0
worker_thread+0x2b/0x3c0
kthread+0x113/0x130
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

Note that this is a "revert" in behavior only. I'm leaving alone the
actual code cleanups in commit 721c7fc701c7, but letting the previously
uncaught request go through with a warning instead of stopping it.

Fixes: 721c7fc701c7 ("block: fail op_is_write() requests to read-only partitions")
Reported-and-tested-by: WGH <wgh@torlan.ru>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
block/blk-core.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -2174,11 +2174,12 @@ static inline bool bio_check_ro(struct b
if (part->policy && op_is_write(bio_op(bio))) {
char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];

- printk(KERN_ERR
+ WARN_ONCE(1,
"generic_make_request: Trying to write "
"to read-only block-device %s (partno %d)\n",
bio_devname(bio, b), part->partno);
- return true;
+ /* Older lvm-tools actually trigger this */
+ return false;
}

return false;