dm thin: fix discard support to a previously shared block

If a snapshot is created and later deleted the origin dm_thin_device's
snapshotted_time will have been updated to reflect the snapshot's
creation time.  The 'shared' flag in the dm_thin_lookup_result struct
returned from dm_thin_find_block() is an approximation based on
snapshotted_time -- this is done to avoid 0(n), or worse, time
complexity.  In this case, the shared flag would be true.

But because the 'shared' flag reflects an approximation a block can be
incorrectly assumed to be shared (e.g. false positive for 'shared'
because the snapshot no longer exists).  This could result in discards
issued to a thin device not being passed down to the pool's underlying
data device.

To fix this we double check that a thin block is really still in-use
after a mapping is removed using dm_pool_block_is_used().  If the
reference count for a block is now zero the discard is allowed to be
passed down.

Also add a 'definitely_not_shared' member to the dm_thin_new_mapping
structure -- reflects that the 'shared' flag in the response from
dm_thin_find_block() can only be held as definitive if false is
returned.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043527

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
index 8a30ad5..7da3476 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
@@ -1349,6 +1349,12 @@ dm_thin_id dm_thin_dev_id(struct dm_thin_device *td)
 	return td->id;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Check whether @time (of block creation) is older than @td's last snapshot.
+ * If so then the associated block is shared with the last snapshot device.
+ * Any block on a device created *after* the device last got snapshotted is
+ * necessarily not shared.
+ */
 static bool __snapshotted_since(struct dm_thin_device *td, uint32_t time)
 {
 	return td->snapshotted_time > time;
@@ -1458,6 +1464,20 @@ int dm_thin_remove_block(struct dm_thin_device *td, dm_block_t block)
 	return r;
 }
 
+int dm_pool_block_is_used(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd, dm_block_t b, bool *result)
+{
+	int r;
+	uint32_t ref_count;
+
+	down_read(&pmd->root_lock);
+	r = dm_sm_get_count(pmd->data_sm, b, &ref_count);
+	if (!r)
+		*result = (ref_count != 0);
+	up_read(&pmd->root_lock);
+
+	return r;
+}
+
 bool dm_thin_changed_this_transaction(struct dm_thin_device *td)
 {
 	int r;