Hi This is that patch for bio code that is needed for dm-raid1 barriers. Mikulas --- Change definition of bio_has_data (and bio_empty_barrier that uses it). With the following dm-io patch, it may happen that we create a null barrier bio that has non-zero bi_io_vec but zero bi_size and bi_vcnt. (dm-io uses data past the vector end to store its own bookkeeping information, so the vector must be non-null). This patch changes the logic so that bio with zero length and non-zero vector pointer is recognized as an empty-barrier bio. Without this patch, such bio would be mistreated at a number of locations in the bio stack as well as in device mapper. I grepped for all users of bio_has_data and didn't find problem with any of them. I also grepped for other code locations that may mistakenly use bio->bi_io_vec != NULL to test for an empty barrier and there were not any other. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/bio.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.30-rc4-devel/include/linux/bio.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.30-rc4-devel.orig/include/linux/bio.h 2009-05-04 17:00:52.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.30-rc4-devel/include/linux/bio.h 2009-05-04 17:03:55.000000000 +0200 @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ static inline char *__bio_kmap_irq(struc */ static inline int bio_has_data(struct bio *bio) { - return bio && bio->bi_io_vec != NULL; + return bio && bio->bi_size != 0; } /* -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel