2.6.37-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: David Dillow <[email protected]> commit 20d9600cb407b0b55fef6ee814b60345c6f58264 upstream. When using devices that support max_segments > BIO_MAX_PAGES (256), direct IO tries to allocate a bio with more pages than allowed, which leads to an oops in dio_bio_alloc(). Clamp the request to the supported maximum, and change dio_bio_alloc() to reflect that bio_alloc() will always return a bio when called with __GFP_WAIT and a valid number of vectors. [[email protected]: remove redundant BUG_ON()] Signed-off-by: David Dillow <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- fs/direct-io.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/direct-io.c +++ b/fs/direct-io.c @@ -325,12 +325,16 @@ void dio_end_io(struct bio *bio, int err } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dio_end_io); -static int +static void dio_bio_alloc(struct dio *dio, struct block_device *bdev, sector_t first_sector, int nr_vecs) { struct bio *bio; + /* + * bio_alloc() is guaranteed to return a bio when called with + * __GFP_WAIT and we request a valid number of vectors. + */ bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nr_vecs); bio->bi_bdev = bdev; @@ -342,7 +346,6 @@ dio_bio_alloc(struct dio *dio, struct bl dio->bio = bio; dio->logical_offset_in_bio = dio->cur_page_fs_offset; - return 0; } /* @@ -583,8 +586,9 @@ static int dio_new_bio(struct dio *dio, goto out; sector = start_sector << (dio->blkbits - 9); nr_pages = min(dio->pages_in_io, bio_get_nr_vecs(dio->map_bh.b_bdev)); + nr_pages = min(nr_pages, BIO_MAX_PAGES); BUG_ON(nr_pages <= 0); - ret = dio_bio_alloc(dio, dio->map_bh.b_bdev, sector, nr_pages); + dio_bio_alloc(dio, dio->map_bh.b_bdev, sector, nr_pages); dio->boundary = 0; out: return ret; _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
