Re: [PATCH 5.15] dm init: add dm-mod.waitfor to wait for asynchronously probed block devices

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 11:36:36AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 11:16 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 01:58:37PM +0800, Mark-PK Tsai wrote:
> > > From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Just calling wait_for_device_probe() is not enough to ensure that
> > > asynchronously probed block devices are available (E.G. mmc, usb), so
> > > add a "dm-mod.waitfor=<device1>[,..,<deviceN>]" parameter to get
> > > dm-init to explicitly wait for specific block devices before
> > > initializing the tables with logic similar to the rootwait logic that
> > > was introduced with commit  cc1ed7542c8c ("init: wait for
> > > asynchronously scanned block devices").
> > > 
> > > E.G. with dm-verity on mmc using:
> > > dm-mod.waitfor="PARTLABEL=hash-a,PARTLABEL=root-a"
> > > 
> > > [    0.671671] device-mapper: init: waiting for all devices to be 
> > available before creating mapped devices
> > > [    0.671679] device-mapper: init: waiting for device PARTLABEL=hash-a 
> > ...
> > > [    0.710695] mmc0: new HS200 MMC card at address 0001
> > > [    0.711158] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 004GA0 3.69 GiB
> > > [    0.715954] mmcblk0boot0: mmc0:0001 004GA0 partition 1 2.00 MiB
> > > [    0.722085] mmcblk0boot1: mmc0:0001 004GA0 partition 2 2.00 MiB
> > > [    0.728093] mmcblk0rpmb: mmc0:0001 004GA0 partition 3 512 KiB, 
> > chardev (249:0)
> > > [    0.738274]  mmcblk0: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7
> > > [    0.751282] device-mapper: init: waiting for device PARTLABEL=root-a 
> > ...
> > > [    0.751306] device-mapper: init: all devices available
> > > [    0.751683] device-mapper: verity: sha256 using implementation 
> > "sha256-generic"
> > > [    0.759344] device-mapper: ioctl: dm-0 (vroot) is ready
> > > [    0.766540] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on 
> > device 254:0.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  .../admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst     |  8 +++++++
> > >  drivers/md/dm-init.c                          | 22 ++++++++++++++++++-
> > >  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > What is the git commit id of this change in Linus's tree?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> >
> >
> 
> Hey Greg,
> 
> This change shouldn't be backported to stable@. It is a feature, if
> Mark-PK feels they need it older kernels they need to carry the change
> in their own tree. Or at a minimum they need to explain why this
> change is warranted in stable@.

Ok, I'll drop it from my queue.

> But to answer your original question the upstream commit is:
> 
> 035641b01e72 dm init: add dm-mod.waitfor to wait for asynchronously probed block devices

Ah, showed up in 6.2, so we have to have a 6.1.y backport as well, I
can't take patches for only older kernels, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h