The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-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);
