The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-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 de1b0ee490eafdf65fac9eef9925391a8369f2dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 11:20:02 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] block: ensure bdi->io_pages is always initialized
If a driver leaves the limit settings as the defaults, then we don't
initialize bdi->io_pages. This means that file systems may need to
work around bdi->io_pages == 0, which is somewhat messy.
Initialize the default value just like we do for ->ra_pages.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 9491ae4aade6 ("mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting")
Reported-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index d9d632639bd1..10c08ac50697 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -539,6 +539,7 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue(int node_id)
goto fail_stats;
q->backing_dev_info->ra_pages = VM_READAHEAD_PAGES;
+ q->backing_dev_info->io_pages = VM_READAHEAD_PAGES;
q->backing_dev_info->capabilities = BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK;
q->node = node_id;
