Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/loop.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index ef8334949b42..58df9ed70328 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -487,6 +487,11 @@ static int lo_rw_aio(struct loop_device *lo, struct loop_cmd *cmd, /* nomerge for loop request queue */ WARN_ON(cmd->rq->bio != cmd->rq->biotail); + /* + * For multipage bvec support, it is safe to pass the bvec + * table to iov iterator, because iov iter still uses bvec + * iter helpers to travese bvec. + */ bvec = __bvec_iter_bvec(bio->bi_io_vec, bio->bi_iter); iov_iter_bvec(&iter, ITER_BVEC | rw, bvec, bio_segments(bio), blk_rq_bytes(cmd->rq)); -- 2.9.4
