[PATCH] dm: disable barriers

This patch causes device-mapper to reject any barrier requests.  This is done
since most of the targets won't handle this correctly anyway.  So until the
situation improves it is better to reject these requests at the first place.
Since barrier requests won't get to the targets, the checks there can be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>

4 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
index 6b50991623e..7989dac5de2 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -940,9 +940,6 @@ static int crypt_map(struct dm_target *ti, struct bio *bio,
 	struct crypt_config *cc = ti->private;
 	struct crypt_io *io;
 
-	if (bio_barrier(bio))
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 	io = mempool_alloc(cc->io_pool, GFP_NOIO);
 	io->target = ti;
 	io->base_bio = bio;
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index 3aa01350696..af27464b7ed 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -795,9 +795,6 @@ static int multipath_map(struct dm_target *ti, struct bio *bio,
 	struct mpath_io *mpio;
 	struct multipath *m = (struct multipath *) ti->private;
 
-	if (bio_barrier(bio))
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 	mpio = mempool_alloc(m->mpio_pool, GFP_NOIO);
 	dm_bio_record(&mpio->details, bio);
 
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
index 9227ba4f19d..39556210db5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
@@ -887,9 +887,6 @@ static int snapshot_map(struct dm_target *ti, struct bio *bio,
 	if (!s->valid)
 		return -EIO;
 
-	if (unlikely(bio_barrier(bio)))
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 	/* FIXME: should only take write lock if we need
 	 * to copy an exception */
 	down_write(&s->lock);
@@ -1160,9 +1157,6 @@ static int origin_map(struct dm_target *ti, struct bio *bio,
 	struct dm_dev *dev = (struct dm_dev *) ti->private;
 	bio->bi_bdev = dev->bdev;
 
-	if (unlikely(bio_barrier(bio)))
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 	/* Only tell snapshots if this is a write */
 	return (bio_rw(bio) == WRITE) ? do_origin(dev, bio) : DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index 3668b170ea6..d531f0cb81a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -802,6 +802,15 @@ static int dm_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio *bio)
 	int rw = bio_data_dir(bio);
 	struct mapped_device *md = q->queuedata;
 
+	/*
+	 * There is no use in forwarding any barrier request since we can't
+	 * guarantee it is (or can be) handled by the targets correctly.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(bio_barrier(bio))) {
+		bio_endio(bio, bio->bi_size, -EOPNOTSUPP);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	down_read(&md->io_lock);
 
 	disk_stat_inc(dm_disk(md), ios[rw]);