Merge series 'Open block devices as files' of https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-0-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org

Pull block devices as files from Christian Brauner:

This opens block devices as files. Instead of introducing a separate
indirection into bdev_open_by_*() vis struct bdev_handle we can just
make bdev_file_open_by_*() return a struct file. Opening and closing a
block device from setup_bdev_super() and in all other places just
becomes equivalent to opening and closing a file.

This has held up in xfstests and in blktests so far and it seems stable
and clean. The equivalence of opening and closing block devices to
regular files is a win in and of itself imho. Added to that is the
ability to do away with struct bdev_handle completely and make various
low-level helpers private to the block layer.

All places were we currently stash a struct bdev_handle we just stash a
file and use an accessor such as file_bdev() akin to I_BDEV() to get to
the block device.

It's now also possible to use file->f_mapping as a replacement for
bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping and file->f_inode or file->f_mapping->host as
an alternative to bdev->bd_inode allowing us to significantly reduce or
even fully remove bdev->bd_inode in follow-up patches.

In addition, we could get rid of sb->s_bdev and various other places
that stash the block device directly and instead stash the block device
file. Again, this is follow-up work if we want this.

* series 'Open block devices as files' of https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-0-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org: (35 commits)
  file: add alloc_file_pseudo_noaccount()
  file: prepare for new helper
  init: flush async file closing
  block: remove bdev_handle completely
  block: don't rely on BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES when yielding write access
  bdev: remove bdev pointer from struct bdev_handle
  bdev: make struct bdev_handle private to the block layer
  bdev: make bdev_{release, open_by_dev}() private to block layer
  bdev: remove bdev_open_by_path()
  reiserfs: port block device access to file
  ocfs2: port block device access to file
  nfs: port block device access to files
  jfs: port block device access to file
  f2fs: port block device access to files
  ext4: port block device access to file
  erofs: port device access to file
  btrfs: port device access to file
  bcachefs: port block device access to file
  target: port block device access to file
  s390: port block device access to file
  nvme: port block device access to file
  block2mtd: port device access to files
  bcache: port block device access to files
  ...

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/block/fops.c b/block/fops.c
index 0cf8cf72cdfa..029e787f0119 100644
--- a/block/fops.c
+++ b/block/fops.c
@@ -569,18 +569,17 @@ static int blkdev_fsync(struct file *filp, loff_t start, loff_t end,
 blk_mode_t file_to_blk_mode(struct file *file)
 {
 	blk_mode_t mode = 0;
-	struct bdev_handle *handle = file->private_data;
 
 	if (file->f_mode & FMODE_READ)
 		mode |= BLK_OPEN_READ;
 	if (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)
 		mode |= BLK_OPEN_WRITE;
 	/*
-	 * do_dentry_open() clears O_EXCL from f_flags, use handle->mode to
-	 * determine whether the open was exclusive for already open files.
+	 * do_dentry_open() clears O_EXCL from f_flags, use file->private_data
+	 * to determine whether the open was exclusive for already open files.
 	 */
-	if (handle)
-		mode |= handle->mode & BLK_OPEN_EXCL;
+	if (file->private_data)
+		mode |= BLK_OPEN_EXCL;
 	else if (file->f_flags & O_EXCL)
 		mode |= BLK_OPEN_EXCL;
 	if (file->f_flags & O_NDELAY)
@@ -599,36 +598,31 @@ blk_mode_t file_to_blk_mode(struct file *file)
 
 static int blkdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 {
-	struct bdev_handle *handle;
+	struct block_device *bdev;
 	blk_mode_t mode;
-
-	/*
-	 * Preserve backwards compatibility and allow large file access
-	 * even if userspace doesn't ask for it explicitly. Some mkfs
-	 * binary needs it. We might want to drop this workaround
-	 * during an unstable branch.
-	 */
-	filp->f_flags |= O_LARGEFILE;
-	filp->f_mode |= FMODE_BUF_RASYNC | FMODE_CAN_ODIRECT;
+	int ret;
 
 	mode = file_to_blk_mode(filp);
-	handle = bdev_open_by_dev(inode->i_rdev, mode,
-			mode & BLK_OPEN_EXCL ? filp : NULL, NULL);
-	if (IS_ERR(handle))
-		return PTR_ERR(handle);
+	/* Use the file as the holder. */
+	if (mode & BLK_OPEN_EXCL)
+		filp->private_data = filp;
+	ret = bdev_permission(inode->i_rdev, mode, filp->private_data);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
 
-	if (bdev_nowait(handle->bdev))
-		filp->f_mode |= FMODE_NOWAIT;
+	bdev = blkdev_get_no_open(inode->i_rdev);
+	if (!bdev)
+		return -ENXIO;
 
-	filp->f_mapping = handle->bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
-	filp->f_wb_err = filemap_sample_wb_err(filp->f_mapping);
-	filp->private_data = handle;
-	return 0;
+	ret = bdev_open(bdev, mode, filp->private_data, NULL, filp);
+	if (ret)
+		blkdev_put_no_open(bdev);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int blkdev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 {
-	bdev_release(filp->private_data);
+	bdev_release(filp);
 	return 0;
 }