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authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>2014-07-02 15:22:36 -0700
committerSimon Shields <keepcalm444@gmail.com>2016-06-12 21:20:06 +1000
commit9a9f224a63dbc24a93ef6fcb7e04cba045466583 (patch)
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zram: revalidate disk after capacity change
Alexander reported mkswap on /dev/zram0 is failed if other process is opening the block device file. Step is as follows, 0. Reset the unused zram device. 1. Use a program that opens /dev/zram0 with O_RDWR and sleeps until killed. 2. While that program sleeps, echo the correct value to /sys/block/zram0/disksize. 3. Verify (e.g. in /proc/partitions) that the disk size is applied correctly. It is. 4. While that program still sleeps, attempt to mkswap /dev/zram0. This fails: mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40 KiB When I investigated, the size get by ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE64, xxx) on mkswap to get a size of blockdev was zero although zram0 has right size by 2. The reason is zram didn't revalidate disk after changing capacity so that size of blockdev's inode is not uptodate until all of file is close. This patch should fix the BUG. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reported-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com> Tested-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index ca7f4e6..4d59e5f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -633,8 +633,10 @@ static void zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram, bool reset_capacity)
memset(&zram->stats, 0, sizeof(zram->stats));
zram->disksize = 0;
- if (reset_capacity)
+ if (reset_capacity) {
set_capacity(zram->disk, 0);
+ revalidate_disk(zram->disk);
+ }
up_write(&zram->init_lock);
}
@@ -675,6 +677,7 @@ static ssize_t disksize_store(struct device *dev,
zram->comp = comp;
zram->disksize = disksize;
set_capacity(zram->disk, zram->disksize >> SECTOR_SHIFT);
+ revalidate_disk(zram->disk);
up_write(&zram->init_lock);
return len;