On 8/14/18 10:24 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 8/14/18 10:22 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 8:24 AM Ilya Dryomov <idryo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Looks like it's coming from that fsync(): >>> >>> sys_fsync >>> do_fsync >>> vfs_fsync_range >>> blkdev_fsync >>> blkdev_issue_flush >>> >>> I think we need to teach blkdev_issue_flush() to bail out if the bdev >>> is read-only, similar to blkdev_issue_discard(), _write_zeroes(), etc. >>> The question is which error code to use. blkdev_fsync() already skips >>> over EOPNOTSUPP, so it is a (no-so-good) option. Other blkdev_issue_ >>> functions return EPERM. >> >> Oh, just make issue_flush() return EROFS for a read-only device. >> >> Or maybe we should even just consider the flush to be a read operation? >> >> But I guess the error code gets percolated all the way to user space? >> The safest option might just be to return 0. > > We probably just want to special case a flush for this check. In other > situations, like resource allocation and issue, we'd want to consider > it a write.
Ala: diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index 12550340418d..29f8a60965bc 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -2162,7 +2163,9 @@ static inline bool should_fail_request(struct hd_struct *part, static inline bool bio_check_ro(struct bio *bio, struct hd_struct *part) { - if (part->policy && op_is_write(bio_op(bio))) { + const int op = bio_op(bio); + + if (part->policy && (op_is_write(op) && !op_is_flush(op))) { char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; WARN_ONCE(1, -- Jens Axboe