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<title>rnbd-srv: Zero the rsp buffer before using it</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T12:19:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Md Haris Iqbal</name>
<email>haris.iqbal@ionos.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-05T12:47:33+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 69d26698e4fd44935510553809007151b2fe4db5 ]

Before using the data buffer to send back the response message, zero it
completely. This prevents any stray bytes to be picked up by the client
side when there the message is exchanged between different protocol
versions.

Signed-off-by: Md Haris Iqbal &lt;haris.iqbal@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jack Wang &lt;jinpu.wang@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Prajsner &lt;grzegorz.prajsner@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 69d26698e4fd44935510553809007151b2fe4db5 ]

Before using the data buffer to send back the response message, zero it
completely. This prevents any stray bytes to be picked up by the client
side when there the message is exchanged between different protocol
versions.

Signed-off-by: Md Haris Iqbal &lt;haris.iqbal@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jack Wang &lt;jinpu.wang@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Prajsner &lt;grzegorz.prajsner@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rnbd-srv: Fix server side setting of bi_size for special IOs</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T22:58:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian-Ewald Mueller</name>
<email>florian-ewald.mueller@ionos.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-05T12:47:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4ac9690d4b9456ca1d5276d86547fa2e7cd47684 ]

On rnbd-srv, the bi_size of the bio is set during the bio_add_page
function, to which datalen is passed. But for special IOs like DISCARD
and WRITE_ZEROES, datalen is 0, since there is no data to write. For
these special IOs, use the bi_size of the rnbd_msg_io.

Fixes: f6f84be089c9 ("block/rnbd-srv: Add sanity check and remove redundant assignment")
Signed-off-by: Florian-Ewald Mueller &lt;florian-ewald.mueller@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Md Haris Iqbal &lt;haris.iqbal@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Prajsner &lt;grzegorz.prajsner@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4ac9690d4b9456ca1d5276d86547fa2e7cd47684 ]

On rnbd-srv, the bi_size of the bio is set during the bio_add_page
function, to which datalen is passed. But for special IOs like DISCARD
and WRITE_ZEROES, datalen is 0, since there is no data to write. For
these special IOs, use the bi_size of the rnbd_msg_io.

Fixes: f6f84be089c9 ("block/rnbd-srv: Add sanity check and remove redundant assignment")
Signed-off-by: Florian-Ewald Mueller &lt;florian-ewald.mueller@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Md Haris Iqbal &lt;haris.iqbal@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Prajsner &lt;grzegorz.prajsner@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: rnbd-clt: Fix signedness bug in init_dev()</title>
<updated>2026-01-02T11:57:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-20T08:46:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1ddb815fdfd45613c32e9bd1f7137428f298e541 ]

The "dev-&gt;clt_device_id" variable is set using ida_alloc_max() which
returns an int and in particular it returns negative error codes.
Change the type from u32 to int to fix the error checking.

Fixes: c9b5645fd8ca ("block: rnbd-clt: Fix leaked ID in init_dev()")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1ddb815fdfd45613c32e9bd1f7137428f298e541 ]

The "dev-&gt;clt_device_id" variable is set using ida_alloc_max() which
returns an int and in particular it returns negative error codes.
Change the type from u32 to int to fix the error checking.

Fixes: c9b5645fd8ca ("block: rnbd-clt: Fix leaked ID in init_dev()")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: rnbd-clt: Fix leaked ID in init_dev()</title>
<updated>2026-01-02T11:56:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Fourier</name>
<email>fourier.thomas@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-17T09:36:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c9b5645fd8ca10f310e41b07540f98e6a9720f40 ]

If kstrdup() fails in init_dev(), then the newly allocated ID is lost.

Fixes: 64e8a6ece1a5 ("block/rnbd-clt: Dynamically alloc buffer for pathname &amp; blk_symlink_name")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Fourier &lt;fourier.thomas@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jack Wang &lt;jinpu.wang@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c9b5645fd8ca10f310e41b07540f98e6a9720f40 ]

If kstrdup() fails in init_dev(), then the newly allocated ID is lost.

Fixes: 64e8a6ece1a5 ("block/rnbd-clt: Dynamically alloc buffer for pathname &amp; blk_symlink_name")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Fourier &lt;fourier.thomas@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jack Wang &lt;jinpu.wang@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drivers/block: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users</title>
<updated>2025-09-09T15:11:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Crivellari</name>
<email>marco.crivellari@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-05T08:51:41+00:00</published>
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Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

This patch adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag to explicitly request the use of
the per-CPU behavior. Both flags coexist for one release cycle to allow
callers to transition their calls.

Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit default.

With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU.

All existing users have been updated accordingly.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

This patch adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag to explicitly request the use of
the per-CPU behavior. Both flags coexist for one release cycle to allow
callers to transition their calls.

Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit default.

With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU.

All existing users have been updated accordingly.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: switch -&gt;getgeo() to struct gendisk</title>
<updated>2025-08-13T06:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-22T02:19:55+00:00</published>
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Instances are happier that way and it makes more sense anyway -
the only part of the result that is related to partition we are given
is the start sector, and that has been filled in by the caller.

Everything else is a function of the disk.  Only one instance
(DASD) is ever looking at anything other than bdev-&gt;bd_disk and
that one is trivial to adjust.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Instances are happier that way and it makes more sense anyway -
the only part of the result that is related to partition we are given
is the start sector, and that has been filled in by the caller.

Everything else is a function of the disk.  Only one instance
(DASD) is ever looking at anything other than bdev-&gt;bd_disk and
that one is trivial to adjust.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rnbd-srv: use bio_add_virt_nofail</title>
<updated>2025-05-07T13:31:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T12:04:33+00:00</published>
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Use the bio_add_virt_nofail to add a single kernel virtual address
to a bio as that can't fail.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jack Wang &lt;jinpu.wang@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507120451.4000627-10-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Use the bio_add_virt_nofail to add a single kernel virtual address
to a bio as that can't fail.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jack Wang &lt;jinpu.wang@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507120451.4000627-10-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: remove unused parameter 'q' parameter in __blk_rq_map_sg()</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T11:46:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anuj Gupta</name>
<email>anuj20.g@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-13T03:53:18+00:00</published>
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request_queue param is no longer used by blk_rq_map_sg and
__blk_rq_map_sg. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Anuj Gupta &lt;anuj20.g@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250313035322.243239-1-anuj20.g@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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request_queue param is no longer used by blk_rq_map_sg and
__blk_rq_map_sg. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Anuj Gupta &lt;anuj20.g@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250313035322.243239-1-anuj20.g@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: remove BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE</title>
<updated>2024-12-23T15:17:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-19T06:01:59+00:00</published>
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BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE is set for all tag_sets except those that purely
process passthrough commands (bsg-lib, ufs tmf, various nvme admin
queues) and thus don't even check the flag.  Remove it to simplify the
driver interface.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241219060214.1928848-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE is set for all tag_sets except those that purely
process passthrough commands (bsg-lib, ufs tmf, various nvme admin
queues) and thus don't even check the flag.  Remove it to simplify the
driver interface.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241219060214.1928848-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Delete bio_set_prio()</title>
<updated>2024-12-23T15:17:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Garry</name>
<email>john.g.garry@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-02T11:19:57+00:00</published>
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Since commit 43b62ce3ff0a ("block: move bio io prio to a new field"), macro
bio_set_prio() does nothing but set bio-&gt;bi_ioprio. All other places just
set bio-&gt;bi_ioprio directly, so replace bio_set_prio() remaining
callsites with setting bio-&gt;bi_ioprio directly and delete that macro.

Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jack Wang &lt;jinpu.wang@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202111957.2311683-3-john.g.garry@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Since commit 43b62ce3ff0a ("block: move bio io prio to a new field"), macro
bio_set_prio() does nothing but set bio-&gt;bi_ioprio. All other places just
set bio-&gt;bi_ioprio directly, so replace bio_set_prio() remaining
callsites with setting bio-&gt;bi_ioprio directly and delete that macro.

Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jack Wang &lt;jinpu.wang@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202111957.2311683-3-john.g.garry@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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