This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
block: get the 1st and last bvec via helpers
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
block-get-the-1st-and-last-bvec-via-helpers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 25e71a99f10e444cd00bb2ebccb11e1c9fb672b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 23:40:52 +0800
Subject: block: get the 1st and last bvec via helpers
From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 25e71a99f10e444cd00bb2ebccb11e1c9fb672b1 upstream.
This patch applies the two introduced helpers to
figure out the 1st and last bvec, and fixes the
original way after bio splitting.
Reported-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/blkdev.h | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1389,11 +1389,16 @@ static inline bool bvec_gap_to_prev(stru
static inline bool bio_will_gap(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *prev,
struct bio *next)
{
- if (!bio_has_data(prev) || !queue_virt_boundary(q))
- return false;
+ if (bio_has_data(prev) && queue_virt_boundary(q)) {
+ struct bio_vec pb, nb;
- return __bvec_gap_to_prev(q, &prev->bi_io_vec[prev->bi_vcnt - 1],
- next->bi_io_vec[0].bv_offset);
+ bio_get_last_bvec(prev, &pb);
+ bio_get_first_bvec(next, &nb);
+
+ return __bvec_gap_to_prev(q, &pb, nb.bv_offset);
+ }
+
+ return false;
}
static inline bool req_gap_back_merge(struct request *req, struct bio *bio)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/block-bio-introduce-helpers-to-get-the-1st-and-last-bvec.patch
queue-4.4/block-check-virt-boundary-in-bio_will_gap.patch
queue-4.4/block-get-the-1st-and-last-bvec-via-helpers.patch
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