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Subject[PATCH 5.7 161/166] dm writecache: reject asynchronous pmem devices
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From: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>

commit a46624580376a3a0beb218d94cbc7f258696e29f upstream.

DM writecache does not handle asynchronous pmem. Reject it when
supplied as cache.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvdimm/87lfk5hahc.fsf@linux.ibm.com/
Fixes: 6e84200c0a29 ("virtio-pmem: Add virtio pmem driver")
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.3+
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/md/dm-writecache.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
@@ -2232,6 +2232,12 @@ invalid_optional:
}

if (WC_MODE_PMEM(wc)) {
+ if (!dax_synchronous(wc->ssd_dev->dax_dev)) {
+ r = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ ti->error = "Asynchronous persistent memory not supported as pmem cache";
+ goto bad;
+ }
+
r = persistent_memory_claim(wc);
if (r) {
ti->error = "Unable to map persistent memory for cache";

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