History log of /linux-master/Documentation/block/ublk.rst
Revision Date Author Comments
# d56b699d 14-Aug-2023 Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>

Documentation: Fix typos

Fix typos in Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-4-helgaas@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 464544fb 17-Jan-2023 Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>

block: ublk: fix doc build warning

Fix the following warning:

Documentation/block/ublk.rst:157: WARNING: Enumerated list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/block/ublk.rst:171: WARNING: Enumerated list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

Fixes: 56f5160bc1b8 ("ublk_drv: add mechanism for supporting unprivileged ublk device")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118042318.127900-1-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 4093cb5a 05-Jan-2023 Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>

ublk_drv: add mechanism for supporting unprivileged ublk device

unprivileged ublk device is helpful for container use case, such
as: ublk device created in one unprivileged container can be controlled
and accessed by this container only.

Implement this feature by adding flag of UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV, and if
this flag isn't set, any control command has been run from privileged
user. Otherwise, any control command can be sent from any unprivileged
user, but the user has to be permitted to access the ublk char device
to be controlled.

In case of UBLK_F_UNPRIVILEGED_DEV:

1) for command UBLK_CMD_ADD_DEV, it is always allowed, and user needs
to provide owner's uid/gid in this command, so that udev can set correct
ownership for the created ublk device, since the device owner uid/gid
can be queried via command of UBLK_CMD_GET_DEV_INFO.

2) for other control commands, they can only be run successfully if the
current user is allowed to access the specified ublk char device, for
running the permission check, path of the ublk char device has to be
provided by these commands.

Also add one control of command UBLK_CMD_GET_DEV_INFO2 which always
include the char dev path in payload since userspace may not have
knowledge if this device is created in unprivileged mode.

For applying this mechanism, system administrator needs to take
the following policies:

1) chmod 0666 /dev/ublk-control

2) change ownership of ublkcN & ublkbN
- chown owner_uid:owner_gid /dev/ublkcN
- chown owner_uid:owner_gid /dev/ublkbN

Both can be done via one simple udev rule.

Userspace:

https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv/tree/unprivileged-ublk

'ublk add -t $TYPE --un_privileged=1' is for creating one un-privileged
ublk device if the user is un-privileged.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/YoOr6jBfgVm8GvWg@stefanha-x1.localdomain/
Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230106041711.914434-7-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# e0539ae0 17-Oct-2022 ZiyangZhang <ZiyangZhang@linux.alibaba.com>

Documentation: document ublk user recovery feature

Add documentation for user recovery feature of ublk subsystem.

Signed-off-by: ZiyangZhang <ZiyangZhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221018045346.99706-2-ZiyangZhang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 7a3d2225 02-Sep-2022 Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>

Documentation: document ublk

Add documentation for ublk subsystem. It was supposed to be documented when
merging the driver, but missing at that time.

Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiaoguang Wang <xiaoguang.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: ZiyangZhang <ZiyangZhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
[axboe: correct MAINTAINERS addition]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>