On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 11:33:35AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> It is pointed that bio_rewind_iter() is one very bad API[1]:
> 
> 1) bio size may not be restored after rewinding
> 
> 2) it causes some bogus change, such as 5151842b9d8732 (block: reset
> bi_iter.bi_done after splitting bio)
> 
> 3) rewinding really makes things complicated wrt. bio splitting
> 
> 4) unnecessary updating of .bi_done in fast path
> 
> [1] https://marc.info/?t=153549924200005&r=1&w=2

Based on that this is a bug fix and should go to 4.19 instead of 4.20
as it is queued up right now..

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