Patch "block: bio: introduce helpers to get the 1st and last bvec" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    block: bio: introduce helpers to get the 1st and last bvec

to the 4.4-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:
     block-bio-introduce-helpers-to-get-the-1st-and-last-bvec.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 7bcd79ac50d9d83350a835bdb91c04ac9e098412 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 23:40:50 +0800
Subject: block: bio: introduce helpers to get the 1st and last bvec

From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

commit 7bcd79ac50d9d83350a835bdb91c04ac9e098412 upstream.

The bio passed to bio_will_gap() may be fast cloned from upper
layer(dm, md, bcache, fs, ...), or from bio splitting in block
core.

Unfortunately bio_will_gap() just figures out the last bvec via
'bi_io_vec[prev->bi_vcnt - 1]' directly, and this way is obviously
wrong.

This patch introduces two helpers for getting the first and last
bvec of one bio for fixing the issue.

Reported-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/bio.h |   37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -310,6 +310,43 @@ static inline void bio_clear_flag(struct
 	bio->bi_flags &= ~(1U << bit);
 }
 
+static inline void bio_get_first_bvec(struct bio *bio, struct bio_vec *bv)
+{
+	*bv = bio_iovec(bio);
+}
+
+static inline void bio_get_last_bvec(struct bio *bio, struct bio_vec *bv)
+{
+	struct bvec_iter iter = bio->bi_iter;
+	int idx;
+
+	if (!bio_flagged(bio, BIO_CLONED)) {
+		*bv = bio->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_vcnt - 1];
+		return;
+	}
+
+	if (unlikely(!bio_multiple_segments(bio))) {
+		*bv = bio_iovec(bio);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	bio_advance_iter(bio, &iter, iter.bi_size);
+
+	if (!iter.bi_bvec_done)
+		idx = iter.bi_idx - 1;
+	else	/* in the middle of bvec */
+		idx = iter.bi_idx;
+
+	*bv = bio->bi_io_vec[idx];
+
+	/*
+	 * iter.bi_bvec_done records actual length of the last bvec
+	 * if this bio ends in the middle of one io vector
+	 */
+	if (iter.bi_bvec_done)
+		bv->bv_len = iter.bi_bvec_done;
+}
+
 enum bip_flags {
 	BIP_BLOCK_INTEGRITY	= 1 << 0, /* block layer owns integrity data */
 	BIP_MAPPED_INTEGRITY	= 1 << 1, /* ref tag has been remapped */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ming.lei@canonical.com are

queue-4.4/block-bio-introduce-helpers-to-get-the-1st-and-last-bvec.patch