linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] md: replace GENHD_FL_UP with GENHD_FL_DISK_ADDED on is_mddev

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 21 Jul 2021 06:03:46 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, hare@...e.de, bvanassche@....org,
        ming.lei@...hat.com, hch@...radead.org, jack@...e.cz,
        osandov@...com, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...onical.com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] md: replace GENHD_FL_UP with GENHD_FL_DISK_ADDED on
 is_mddev_broken()

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 11:20:45AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> The GENHD_FL_DISK_ADDED flag is what we really want, as the
> flag GENHD_FL_UP could be set on a semi-initialized device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>

Based on the commit log for the patch adding this check I think this
is wrong  It actually wants to detected underlying devices for which
del_gendisk has been called.

> ---
>  drivers/md/md.h | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
> index 832547cf038f..cf70e0cfa856 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/md.h
> +++ b/drivers/md/md.h
> @@ -764,9 +764,7 @@ struct md_rdev *md_find_rdev_rcu(struct mddev *mddev, dev_t dev);
>  
>  static inline bool is_mddev_broken(struct md_rdev *rdev, const char *md_type)
>  {
> -	int flags = rdev->bdev->bd_disk->flags;
> -
> -	if (!(flags & GENHD_FL_UP)) {
> +	if (!blk_disk_added(rdev->bdev->bd_disk)) {
>  		if (!test_and_set_bit(MD_BROKEN, &rdev->mddev->flags))
>  			pr_warn("md: %s: %s array has a missing/failed member\n",
>  				mdname(rdev->mddev), md_type);
> -- 
> 2.27.0
> 
---end quoted text---