4.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> commit 0cbc72a1781250f373327dd7e306e33859a42154 upstream. aoeblk contains some mysterious code, that wants to elevate the bio vec page counts while it's under IO. That is not needed, it's fragile, and it's causing kernel oopses for some. Reported-by: Tested-by: Don Koch <kochd@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Tested-by: Don Koch <kochd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c | 41 ----------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 41 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c @@ -853,45 +853,6 @@ rqbiocnt(struct request *r) return n; } -/* This can be removed if we are certain that no users of the block - * layer will ever use zero-count pages in bios. Otherwise we have to - * protect against the put_page sometimes done by the network layer. - * - * See http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2007-01/msg00594.html for - * discussion. - * - * We cannot use get_page in the workaround, because it insists on a - * positive page count as a precondition. So we use _refcount directly. - */ -static void -bio_pageinc(struct bio *bio) -{ - struct bio_vec bv; - struct page *page; - struct bvec_iter iter; - - bio_for_each_segment(bv, bio, iter) { - /* Non-zero page count for non-head members of - * compound pages is no longer allowed by the kernel. - */ - page = compound_head(bv.bv_page); - page_ref_inc(page); - } -} - -static void -bio_pagedec(struct bio *bio) -{ - struct page *page; - struct bio_vec bv; - struct bvec_iter iter; - - bio_for_each_segment(bv, bio, iter) { - page = compound_head(bv.bv_page); - page_ref_dec(page); - } -} - static void bufinit(struct buf *buf, struct request *rq, struct bio *bio) { @@ -899,7 +860,6 @@ bufinit(struct buf *buf, struct request buf->rq = rq; buf->bio = bio; buf->iter = bio->bi_iter; - bio_pageinc(bio); } static struct buf * @@ -1127,7 +1087,6 @@ aoe_end_buf(struct aoedev *d, struct buf if (buf == d->ip.buf) d->ip.buf = NULL; rq = buf->rq; - bio_pagedec(buf->bio); mempool_free(buf, d->bufpool); n = (unsigned long) rq->special; rq->special = (void *) --n; -- 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