The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-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 34ffec60b27aa81d04e274e71e4c6ef740f75fc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 20:57:19 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] block: make sure writesame bio is aligned with logical block size Obviously the created writesame bio has to be aligned with logical block size, and use bio_allowed_max_sectors() to retrieve this number. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Xiao Ni <xni@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mariusz Dabrowski <mariusz.dabrowski@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: b49a0871be31a745b2ef ("block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}") Tested-by: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c index d58d5d87dd88..e8b3bb9bf375 100644 --- a/block/blk-lib.c +++ b/block/blk-lib.c @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static int __blkdev_issue_write_same(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, return -EOPNOTSUPP; /* Ensure that max_write_same_sectors doesn't overflow bi_size */ - max_write_same_sectors = UINT_MAX >> 9; + max_write_same_sectors = bio_allowed_max_sectors(q); while (nr_sects) { bio = blk_next_bio(bio, 1, gfp_mask);