dm ioctl: introduce flag indicating uevent was generated

Set a new DM_UEVENT_GENERATED_FLAG when returning from ioctls to
indicate that a uevent was actually generated.  This tells the userspace
caller that it may need to wait for the event to be processed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
index e3cf5686d0aa..d7500e1c26f2 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
@@ -285,7 +285,8 @@ retry:
         up_write(&_hash_lock);
 }
 
-static int dm_hash_rename(uint32_t cookie, const char *old, const char *new)
+static int dm_hash_rename(uint32_t cookie, uint32_t *flags, const char *old,
+                          const char *new)
 {
         char *new_name, *old_name;
         struct hash_cell *hc;
@@ -344,7 +345,8 @@ static int dm_hash_rename(uint32_t cookie, const char *old, const char *new)
                 dm_table_put(table);
         }
 
-        dm_kobject_uevent(hc->md, KOBJ_CHANGE, cookie);
+        if (!dm_kobject_uevent(hc->md, KOBJ_CHANGE, cookie))
+                *flags |= DM_UEVENT_GENERATED_FLAG;
 
         dm_put(hc->md);
         up_write(&_hash_lock);
@@ -736,10 +738,10 @@ static int dev_remove(struct dm_ioctl *param, size_t param_size)
         __hash_remove(hc);
         up_write(&_hash_lock);
 
-        dm_kobject_uevent(md, KOBJ_REMOVE, param->event_nr);
+        if (!dm_kobject_uevent(md, KOBJ_REMOVE, param->event_nr))
+                param->flags |= DM_UEVENT_GENERATED_FLAG;
 
         dm_put(md);
-        param->data_size = 0;
         return 0;
 }
 
@@ -773,7 +775,9 @@ static int dev_rename(struct dm_ioctl *param, size_t param_size)
                 return r;
 
         param->data_size = 0;
-        return dm_hash_rename(param->event_nr, param->name, new_name);
+
+        return dm_hash_rename(param->event_nr, &param->flags, param->name,
+                              new_name);
 }
 
 static int dev_set_geometry(struct dm_ioctl *param, size_t param_size)
@@ -899,8 +903,8 @@ static int do_resume(struct dm_ioctl *param)
 
         if (dm_suspended_md(md)) {
                 r = dm_resume(md);
-                if (!r)
-                        dm_kobject_uevent(md, KOBJ_CHANGE, param->event_nr);
+                if (!r && !dm_kobject_uevent(md, KOBJ_CHANGE, param->event_nr))
+                        param->flags |= DM_UEVENT_GENERATED_FLAG;
         }
 
         if (old_map)
@@ -1477,6 +1481,7 @@ static int validate_params(uint cmd, struct dm_ioctl *param)
 {
         /* Always clear this flag */
         param->flags &= ~DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG;
+        param->flags &= ~DM_UEVENT_GENERATED_FLAG;
 
         /* Ignores parameters */
         if (cmd == DM_REMOVE_ALL_CMD ||