[dm-devel] dm table: Reject unconfigured device

[Mike Snitzer]

On Tue, Mar 29 2011 at  1:19pm -0400,
Milan Broz <mbroz at redhat.com> wrote:

> Some block devices exist but have request function undefined
> (e.g. loop device without backing file).
> 
> Because we are allowing  devices with zero size
> (offline device in multipath, see commit
> 2cd54d9bedb79a97f014e86c0da393416b264eb3, there should be
> additional check if device is initialised.
> 
> This patch adds check that block device has request function
> defined, otherwise it rejects mapped area as invalid.
> 
> Reproducer is trivial: dm-mirror on unbound loop device
> (no backing file on loop devices)
> 
> dmsetup create x --table "0 8 mirror core 2 8 sync 2 /dev/loop0 0 /dev/loop1 0"
> 
> and mirror resync will immediatelly cause OOps.
> 
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
>  ? generic_make_request+0x2bd/0x590
>  ? kmem_cache_alloc+0xad/0x190
>  submit_bio+0x53/0xe0
>  ? bio_add_page+0x3b/0x50
>  dispatch_io+0x1ca/0x210 [dm_mod]
>  ? read_callback+0x0/0xd0 [dm_mirror]
>  dm_io+0xbb/0x290 [dm_mod]
>  do_mirror+0x1e0/0x748 [dm_mirror]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz at redhat.com>
> Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac at redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-table.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> index 38e4eb1..12caa66 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> @@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ static void close_dev(struct dm_dev_internal *d, struct mapped_device *md)
>  static int device_area_is_invalid(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev,
>  				  sector_t start, sector_t len, void *data)
>  {
> +	struct request_queue *q;
>  	struct queue_limits *limits = data;
>  	struct block_device *bdev = dev->bdev;
>  	sector_t dev_size =
> @@ -369,6 +370,22 @@ static int device_area_is_invalid(struct dm_target *ti, struct dm_dev *dev,
>  		limits->logical_block_size >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
>  	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Some devices exist but have not yet request function defined
> +	 * (e.g. loop with not bounded backing file)
> +	 * Do not allow using such devices.
> +	 */
> +	q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
> +	if (!q || !q->make_request_fn) {
> +		DMWARN("%s: %s is not yet initialised: "
> +		       "start=%llu, len=%llu, dev_size=%llu",
> +		       dm_device_name(ti->table->md), bdevname(bdev, b),
> +		       (unsigned long long)start,
> +		       (unsigned long long)len,
> +		       (unsigned long long)dev_size);
> +		return 1;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (!dev_size)
>  		return 0;
>  

Checking this in device_area_is_invalid() works and has a nice
side-effect of providing useful information about the device in
question.

Part of me was thinking it best to check this, and error out, as early
as possible (e.g. in drivers/md/dm-table.c:open_dev()).  But I like the
additional info that is naturally provided in device_area_is_invalid().

Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>