linvdimm, pmem: Preserve read-only setting for pmem devices
authorRobert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Thu, 31 May 2018 23:36:36 +0000 (18:36 -0500)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Fri, 1 Jun 2018 04:07:33 +0000 (21:07 -0700)
The pmem driver does not honor a forced read-only setting for very long:
$ blockdev --setro /dev/pmem0
$ blockdev --getro /dev/pmem0
1

followed by various commands like these:
$ blockdev --rereadpt /dev/pmem0
or
$ mkfs.ext4 /dev/pmem0

results in this in the kernel serial log:
 nd_pmem namespace0.0: region0 read-write, marking pmem0 read-write

with the read-only setting lost:
$ blockdev --getro /dev/pmem0
0

That's from bus.c nvdimm_revalidate_disk(), which always applies the
setting from nd_region (which is initially based on the ACPI NFIT
NVDIMM state flags not_armed bit).

In contrast, commit 20bd1d026aac ("scsi: sd: Keep disk read-only when
re-reading partition") fixed this issue for SCSI devices to preserve
the previous setting if it was set to read-only.

This patch modifies bus.c to preserve any previous read-only setting.
It also eliminates the kernel serial log print except for cases where
read-write is changed to read-only, so it doesn't print read-only to
read-only non-changes.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 581388209405 ("libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only")
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
drivers/nvdimm/bus.c

index a64023690cadeec34e251c38efeb4b036f0a91ac..b9e0d30e317acc86139c4cf2cadb11b8cc6572cd 100644 (file)
@@ -566,14 +566,18 @@ int nvdimm_revalidate_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
 {
        struct device *dev = disk_to_dev(disk)->parent;
        struct nd_region *nd_region = to_nd_region(dev->parent);
-       const char *pol = nd_region->ro ? "only" : "write";
+       int disk_ro = get_disk_ro(disk);
 
-       if (nd_region->ro == get_disk_ro(disk))
+       /*
+        * Upgrade to read-only if the region is read-only preserve as
+        * read-only if the disk is already read-only.
+        */
+       if (disk_ro || nd_region->ro == disk_ro)
                return 0;
 
-       dev_info(dev, "%s read-%s, marking %s read-%s\n",
-                       dev_name(&nd_region->dev), pol, disk->disk_name, pol);
-       set_disk_ro(disk, nd_region->ro);
+       dev_info(dev, "%s read-only, marking %s read-only\n",
+                       dev_name(&nd_region->dev), disk->disk_name);
+       set_disk_ro(disk, 1);
 
        return 0;