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authorMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2014-07-14 16:59:39 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-07-28 08:08:28 -0700
commit0237a67558244497da9718e466872bb698639c3d (patch)
treecefc5af2e1f21664be93e748edc803b75b60a543 /drivers
parent71fa36b4408e3f3b7e4be135fe232570a64b8153 (diff)
dm cache metadata: do not allow the data block size to change
commit 048e5a07f282c57815b3901d4a68a77fa131ce0a upstream. The block size for the dm-cache's data device must remained fixed for the life of the cache. Disallow any attempt to change the cache's data block size. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c
index 4ead4ba6065..d2899e7eb3a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c
@@ -425,6 +425,15 @@ static int __open_metadata(struct dm_cache_metadata *cmd)
disk_super = dm_block_data(sblock);
+ /* Verify the data block size hasn't changed */
+ if (le32_to_cpu(disk_super->data_block_size) != cmd->data_block_size) {
+ DMERR("changing the data block size (from %u to %llu) is not supported",
+ le32_to_cpu(disk_super->data_block_size),
+ (unsigned long long)cmd->data_block_size);
+ r = -EINVAL;
+ goto bad;
+ }
+
r = __check_incompat_features(disk_super, cmd);
if (r < 0)
goto bad;