Patch "dm: fix dm_merge_bvec regression on 32 bit systems" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    dm: fix dm_merge_bvec regression on 32 bit systems

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     dm-fix-dm_merge_bvec-regression-on-32-bit-systems.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From bd4aaf8f9b85d6b2df3231fd62b219ebb75d3568 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 09:54:58 -0400
Subject: dm: fix dm_merge_bvec regression on 32 bit systems

From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

commit bd4aaf8f9b85d6b2df3231fd62b219ebb75d3568 upstream.

A DM regression on 32 bit systems was reported against v4.2-rc3 here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/29/401

Fix this by reverting both commit 1c220c69 ("dm: fix casting bug in
dm_merge_bvec()") and 148e51ba ("dm: improve documentation and code
clarity in dm_merge_bvec").  This combined revert is done to eliminate
the possibility of a partial revert in stable@ kernels.

In hindsight the correct fix, at the time 1c220c69 was applied to fix
the regression that 148e51ba introduced, should've been to simply revert
148e51ba.

Reported-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Tested-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/dm.c |   27 ++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1719,7 +1719,8 @@ static int dm_merge_bvec(struct request_
 	struct mapped_device *md = q->queuedata;
 	struct dm_table *map = dm_get_live_table_fast(md);
 	struct dm_target *ti;
-	sector_t max_sectors, max_size = 0;
+	sector_t max_sectors;
+	int max_size = 0;
 
 	if (unlikely(!map))
 		goto out;
@@ -1732,18 +1733,10 @@ static int dm_merge_bvec(struct request_
 	 * Find maximum amount of I/O that won't need splitting
 	 */
 	max_sectors = min(max_io_len(bvm->bi_sector, ti),
-			  (sector_t) queue_max_sectors(q));
+			  (sector_t) BIO_MAX_SECTORS);
 	max_size = (max_sectors << SECTOR_SHIFT) - bvm->bi_size;
-
-	/*
-	 * FIXME: this stop-gap fix _must_ be cleaned up (by passing a sector_t
-	 * to the targets' merge function since it holds sectors not bytes).
-	 * Just doing this as an interim fix for stable@ because the more
-	 * comprehensive cleanup of switching to sector_t will impact every
-	 * DM target that implements a ->merge hook.
-	 */
-	if (max_size > INT_MAX)
-		max_size = INT_MAX;
+	if (max_size < 0)
+		max_size = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * merge_bvec_fn() returns number of bytes
@@ -1751,13 +1744,13 @@ static int dm_merge_bvec(struct request_
 	 * max is precomputed maximal io size
 	 */
 	if (max_size && ti->type->merge)
-		max_size = ti->type->merge(ti, bvm, biovec, (int) max_size);
+		max_size = ti->type->merge(ti, bvm, biovec, max_size);
 	/*
 	 * If the target doesn't support merge method and some of the devices
-	 * provided their merge_bvec method (we know this by looking for the
-	 * max_hw_sectors that dm_set_device_limits may set), then we can't
-	 * allow bios with multiple vector entries.  So always set max_size
-	 * to 0, and the code below allows just one page.
+	 * provided their merge_bvec method (we know this by looking at
+	 * queue_max_hw_sectors), then we can't allow bios with multiple vector
+	 * entries.  So always set max_size to 0, and the code below allows
+	 * just one page.
 	 */
 	else if (queue_max_hw_sectors(q) <= PAGE_SIZE >> 9)
 		max_size = 0;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from snitzer@redhat.com are

queue-4.1/dm-fix-dm_merge_bvec-regression-on-32-bit-systems.patch