On 09/19/2017 07:51 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 07:10:30AM +0800, Jianchao Wang wrote: >> If the bio_integrity_merge_rq() return false or nr_phys_segments exceeds >> the max_segments, the merging fails, but the bi_front/back_seg_size may >> have been modified. To avoid it, move the sanity checking ahead. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> > > This looks fine to me: > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > > But can you elaborate a little more on how this found and if there > is a way to easily reproduce it, say for a blktests test case? > It is found when I made the patch of 'block: consider merge of segments when merge bio into rq' , not from an actual issue or test case. Thanks Jianchao