btrfs: introduce new ioctl to unregister a btrfs device

Support for a new command that can be used eg. as a command

  $ btrfs device scan --forget [dev]'
(the final name may change though)

to undo the effects of 'btrfs device scan [dev]'. For this purpose
this patch proposes to use ioctl #5 as it was empty and is next to the
SCAN ioctl.

The new ioctl BTRFS_IOC_FORGET_DEV works only on the control device
(/dev/btrfs-control) to unregister one or all devices, devices that are
not mounted.

The argument is struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args, ::name specifies the device
path. To unregister all device, the path is an empty string.

Again, the devices are removed only if they aren't part of a mounte
filesystem.

This new ioctl provides:

- release of unwanted btrfs_fs_devices and btrfs_devices structures
  from memory if the device is not going to be mounted

- ability to mount filesystem in degraded mode, when one devices is
  corrupted like in split brain raid1

- running test cases which would require reloading the kernel module
  but this is not possible eg. due to mounted filesystem or built-in

Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ update changelog ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

fs/btrfs/super.c

@@ -2190,6 +2190,9 @@ static long btrfs_control_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 		ret = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(device);
 		mutex_unlock(&uuid_mutex);
 		break;
+	case BTRFS_IOC_FORGET_DEV:
+		ret = btrfs_forget_devices(vol->name);
+		break;
 	case BTRFS_IOC_DEVICES_READY:
 		mutex_lock(&uuid_mutex);
 		device = btrfs_scan_one_device(vol->name, FMODE_READ,

fs/btrfs/volumes.c

@@ -1446,6 +1446,17 @@ static int btrfs_read_disk_super(struct block_device *bdev, u64 bytenr,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int btrfs_forget_devices(const char *path)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&uuid_mutex);
+	ret = btrfs_free_stale_devices(strlen(path) ? path : NULL, NULL);
+	mutex_unlock(&uuid_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /*
  * Look for a btrfs signature on a device. This may be called out of the mount path
  * and we are not allowed to call set_blocksize during the scan. The superblock

fs/btrfs/volumes.h

@@ -416,6 +416,7 @@ int btrfs_open_devices(struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices,
 		       fmode_t flags, void *holder);
 struct btrfs_device *btrfs_scan_one_device(const char *path,
 					   fmode_t flags, void *holder);
+int btrfs_forget_devices(const char *path);
 int btrfs_close_devices(struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices);
 void btrfs_free_extra_devids(struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices, int step);
 void btrfs_assign_next_active_device(struct btrfs_device *device,

include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h

@@ -837,6 +837,8 @@ enum btrfs_err_code {
 				   struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args)
 #define BTRFS_IOC_SCAN_DEV _IOW(BTRFS_IOCTL_MAGIC, 4, \
 				   struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args)
+#define BTRFS_IOC_FORGET_DEV _IOW(BTRFS_IOCTL_MAGIC, 5, \
+				   struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args)
 /* trans start and trans end are dangerous, and only for
  * use by applications that know how to avoid the
  * resulting deadlocks