[PATCH] md: support adding new devices to md arrays via sysfs

Writing major:minor to md/new_dev will bind that device to the array.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 60 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 40ac7fbab61..825e235b791 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1987,6 +1987,65 @@ chunk_size_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
 static struct md_sysfs_entry md_chunk_size =
 __ATTR(chunk_size, 0644, chunk_size_show, chunk_size_store);
 
+static ssize_t
+null_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
+{
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+new_dev_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	/* buf must be %d:%d\n? giving major and minor numbers */
+	/* The new device is added to the array.
+	 * If the array has a persistent superblock, we read the
+	 * superblock to initialise info and check validity.
+	 * Otherwise, only checking done is that in bind_rdev_to_array,
+	 * which mainly checks size.
+	 */
+	char *e;
+	int major = simple_strtoul(buf, &e, 10);
+	int minor;
+	dev_t dev;
+	mdk_rdev_t *rdev;
+	int err;
+
+	if (!*buf || *e != ':' || !e[1] || e[1] == '\n')
+		return -EINVAL;
+	minor = simple_strtoul(e+1, &e, 10);
+	if (*e && *e != '\n')
+		return -EINVAL;
+	dev = MKDEV(major, minor);
+	if (major != MAJOR(dev) ||
+	    minor != MINOR(dev))
+		return -EOVERFLOW;
+
+
+	if (mddev->persistent) {
+		rdev = md_import_device(dev, mddev->major_version,
+					mddev->minor_version);
+		if (!IS_ERR(rdev) && !list_empty(&mddev->disks)) {
+			mdk_rdev_t *rdev0 = list_entry(mddev->disks.next,
+						       mdk_rdev_t, same_set);
+			err = super_types[mddev->major_version]
+				.load_super(rdev, rdev0, mddev->minor_version);
+			if (err < 0)
+				goto out;
+		}
+	} else
+		rdev = md_import_device(dev, -1, -1);
+
+	if (IS_ERR(rdev))
+		return PTR_ERR(rdev);
+	err = bind_rdev_to_array(rdev, mddev);
+ out:
+	if (err)
+		export_rdev(rdev);
+	return err ? err : len;
+}
+
+static struct md_sysfs_entry md_new_device =
+__ATTR(new_dev, 0200, null_show, new_dev_store);
 
 static ssize_t
 size_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
@@ -2144,6 +2203,7 @@ static struct attribute *md_default_attrs[] = {
 	&md_chunk_size.attr,
 	&md_size.attr,
 	&md_metadata.attr,
+	&md_new_device.attr,
 	NULL,
 };