The patch below does not apply to the 4.7-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 7efb367320f56fc4d549875b6f3a6940018ef2e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:20:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] dm log writes: fix bug with too large bios bio_alloc() can allocate a bio with at most BIO_MAX_PAGES (256) vector entries. However, the incoming bio may have more vector entries if it was allocated by other means. For example, bcache submits bios with more than BIO_MAX_PAGES entries. This results in bio_alloc() failure. To avoid the failure, change the code so that it allocates bio with at most BIO_MAX_PAGES entries. If the incoming bio has more entries, bio_add_page() will fail and a new bio will be allocated - the code that handles bio_add_page() failure already exists in the dm-log-writes target. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb,com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.1+ diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c b/drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c index 4cc78aef9007..ba24f4f37efc 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static int log_one_block(struct log_writes_c *lc, sector++; atomic_inc(&lc->io_blocks); - bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, block->vec_cnt); + bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, min(block->vec_cnt, BIO_MAX_PAGES)); if (!bio) { DMERR("Couldn't alloc log bio"); goto error; @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static int log_one_block(struct log_writes_c *lc, if (ret != block->vecs[i].bv_len) { atomic_inc(&lc->io_blocks); submit_bio(bio); - bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, block->vec_cnt - i); + bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, min(block->vec_cnt - i, BIO_MAX_PAGES)); if (!bio) { DMERR("Couldn't alloc log bio"); goto error; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html