Looks good with one nit, can be done at the time of applying patch. Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@xxxxxxx> On 6/24/19 7:46 PM, Damien Le Moal wrote: > To allow the SCSI subsystem scsi_execute_req() function to issue > requests using large buffers that are better allocated with vmalloc() > rather than kmalloc(), modify bio_map_kern() to allow passing a buffer > allocated with the vmalloc() function. To do so, simply test the buffer > address using is_vmalloc_addr() and use vmalloc_to_page() instead of > virt_to_page() to obtain the pages of vmalloc-ed buffers. > > Fixes: 515ce6061312 ("scsi: sd_zbc: Fix sd_zbc_report_zones() buffer allocation") > Fixes: e76239a3748c ("block: add a report_zones method") > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx> > --- > block/bio.c | 8 +++++++- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c > index ce797d73bb43..05afcaf655f3 100644 > --- a/block/bio.c > +++ b/block/bio.c > @@ -1501,6 +1501,8 @@ struct bio *bio_map_kern(struct request_queue *q, void *data, unsigned int len, > unsigned long end = (kaddr + len + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT; > unsigned long start = kaddr >> PAGE_SHIFT; > const int nr_pages = end - start; > + bool is_vmalloc = is_vmalloc_addr(data); > + struct page *page; > int offset, i; > struct bio *bio; > > @@ -1518,7 +1520,11 @@ struct bio *bio_map_kern(struct request_queue *q, void *data, unsigned int len, > if (bytes > len) > bytes = len; > > - if (bio_add_pc_page(q, bio, virt_to_page(data), bytes, > + if (is_vmalloc) nit:- Can we use is_vmalloc_addr() call directly so that "if (is_vmalloc)" -> "if (is_vmalloc_addr(data))" and remove is_vmalloc variable. > + page = vmalloc_to_page(data); > + else > + page = virt_to_page(data); > + if (bio_add_pc_page(q, bio, page, bytes, > offset) < bytes) { > /* we don't support partial mappings */ > bio_put(bio); >