[PATCH v2] block: only fail dma-buf bios that need block layer PI

Pavel Begunkov asml.silence at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 03:26:09 PDT 2026


On 10/29/26 15:58, Kyle Bader wrote:
> From: Kyle Bader <kbader at ibm.com>
> 
> All dma-buf (P2P) I/O to a device with integrity data is rejected
> today, at registration and in blk_mq_submit_bio(). Only a bio for which
> the block layer generates or verifies PI needs that. The block layer
> then walks the bio_vecs, and a dma-buf bio has none.
> 
> Reject only those bios, and remove the check at registration. Then a
> submitter that attaches its own PI, for example with
> IORING_RW_ATTR_FLAG_PI, can do dma-buf I/O to such a device.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence at gmail.com>

It's also enticing to shove it under the existing
bio_integrity_action() check, but it can be done later.


> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bbb87d6b-b7a3-487a-8be4-27f3f9ce4a1b@samsung.com/
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta <anuj20.g at samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kyle Bader <kbader at ibm.com>
> ---
> v2: a shorter commit message (Christoph), and Anuj's Reviewed-by. The
> code is the same as in v1, so the tests of v1 still apply.
> 
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261028181412.1919506-1-kbader@redhat.com/
> 
>   block/blk-mq.c | 9 ++++++++-
>   block/fops.c   | 2 --
>   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> index 7fff1305b..3fc9fdeb3 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> @@ -3138,8 +3138,15 @@ void blk_mq_submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
>   		goto queue_exit;
>   	}
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * The block layer cannot generate or verify PI for a dma-buf bio, as
> +	 * that walks the data pages.  Only fail the bio if it needs that, not
> +	 * if the submitter attached its own integrity payload or if PI
> +	 * generation or verification is turned off for the device.
> +	 */
>   	if (unlikely(op_is_dmabuf(bio->bi_opf) &&
> -		     bdev_has_integrity_csum(bio->bi_bdev))) {
> +		     bdev_has_integrity_csum(bio->bi_bdev) &&
> +		     (bio_integrity_action(bio) & BI_ACT_CHECK))) {
>   		bio_endio_status(bio, BLK_STS_NOTSUPP);
>   		goto queue_exit;
>   	}
> diff --git a/block/fops.c b/block/fops.c
> index 01bc8afe3..5c8024011 100644
> --- a/block/fops.c
> +++ b/block/fops.c
> @@ -947,8 +947,6 @@ static int blkdev_init_dma_buf_io_ctx(struct file *file,
>   		return -EINVAL;
>   	if (!disk->fops->init_dma_buf_io_ctx)
>   		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> -	if (bdev_has_integrity_csum(bdev))
> -		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>   	return disk->fops->init_dma_buf_io_ctx(bdev, ctx);
>   }
>   
> 
> base-commit: 45b716456dd99488a0cef58482120dc0474aa696

-- 
Pavel Begunkov




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