- I have unearthed very old bugs in stale drivers that still
   used request->cmd as a READ|WRITE int
 - This patch is maybe a proof that these drivers have not been
   used for a long time. Should they be removed completely?

Drivers that currently do not work for sure:
 drivers/acorn/block/fd1772.c |    2 +-
 drivers/acorn/block/mfmhd.c  |    8 ++++----
 drivers/cdrom/aztcd.c        |    2 +-
 drivers/cdrom/cm206.c        |    2 +-
 drivers/cdrom/gscd.c         |    2 +-
 drivers/cdrom/mcdx.c         |    2 +-
 drivers/cdrom/optcd.c        |    2 +-
 drivers/cdrom/sjcd.c         |    2 +-

Drivers with cosmetic fixes only:
  b/drivers/block/amiflop.c
  b/drivers/block/nbd.c
  b/drivers/ide/legacy/hd.c
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix it]
Signed-off-by: NWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NJosef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Allow nbd to expose the nbd-client daemon's PID in /sys/block/nbd<x>/pid.

This is helpful for tracking connection status of a device and for
determining which nbd devices are currently in use.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Right now ->flags is a bit of a mess: some are request types, and
others are just modifiers. Clean this up by splitting it into
->cmd_type and ->cmd_flags. This allows introduction of generic
Linux block message types, useful for sending generic Linux commands
to block devices.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

When reading from nbd device, we need to receive all the data after
receiving reply packet from the server - otherwise such request will never
be ended.

If socket is closed right after accepting reply control packet and in the
middle of waiting for read data, nbd_read_stat() returns NULL and
nbd_end_request() is not called.

This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Feix <michal@feix.cz>
Acked-by: NPaul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

We should check magic sequence in reply packet before trying to find
request with it's request handle.  This also solves the problem with
"Unexpected reply" message beeing logged, when packet with invalid magic is
received.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Feix <michal@feix.cz>
Acked-by: NPaul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The Network Block Device driver doesn't compile if NDEBUG is defined.
Signed-off-by: NIngo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

And remove the now unneeded number field.
Also fixes all drivers that set these fields.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Also fixes up all files that #include it.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Removes the devfs_remove() function and all callers of it.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Removes the devfs_mk_dir() function and all callers of it.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

nbd abuses file header as a changelog (and obsolete one, too), and fails to
mention GPL.  This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

If we can detect a problem at compile time, the compilation should fail.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

      <stuartm@connecttech.com>

Sent by Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>, who needs to read
Documentation/SubmittingPatches..
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Janos Haar of First NetCenter Bt.  reported numerous crashes involving the
NBD driver.  With his help, this was tracked down to bogus bio vectors
which in turn was the result of a race condition between the
receive/transmit routines in the NBD driver.

The bug manifests itself like this:

CPU0				CPU1
do_nbd_request
	add req to queuelist
	nbd_send_request
		send req head
		for each bio
			kmap
			send
				nbd_read_stat
					nbd_find_request
					nbd_end_request
			kunmap

When CPU1 finishes nbd_end_request, the request and all its associated
bio's are freed.  So when CPU0 calls kunmap whose argument is derived from
the last bio, it may crash.

Under normal circumstances, the race occurs only on the last bio.  However,
if an error is encountered on the remote NBD server (such as an incorrect
magic number in the request), or if there were a bug in the server, it is
possible for the nbd_end_request to occur any time after the request's
addition to the queuelist.

The following patch fixes this problem by making sure that requests are not
added to the queuelist until after they have been completed transmission.

In order for the receiving side to be ready for responses involving
requests still being transmitted, the patch introduces the concept of the
active request.

When a response matches the current active request, its processing is
delayed until after the tranmission has come to a stop.

This has been tested by Janos and it has been successful in curing this
race condition.

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

  Here is an updated patch which removes the active_req wait in
  nbd_clear_queue and the associated memory barrier.

  I've also clarified this in the comment.
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: <djani22@dynamicweb.hu>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

add @uptodate argument to end_that_request_last() and @error
to rq_end_io_fn().  there's no generic way to pass error code
to request completion function, making generic error handling
of non-fs request difficult (rq->errors is driver-specific and
each driver uses it differently).  this patch adds @uptodate
to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn().

for fs requests, this doesn't really matter, so just using the
same uptodate argument used in the last call to
end_that_request_first() should suffice.  imho, this can also
help the generic command-carrying request jens is working on.
Signed-off-by: Ntejun heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-Off-By: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

This patches adds the "nbds_max" parameter to the nbd kernel module, which
limits the number of nbds allocated.  Previously, always all 128 entries
were allocated unconditionally, which used to waste resources and
needlessly flood the hotplug system with events.  (Defaults to 16 now.)
Signed-off-by: NLars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!