Patch "dm log writes: fix bug with too large bios" 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

    dm log writes: fix bug with too large bios

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:
     dm-log-writes-fix-bug-with-too-large-bios.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 7efb367320f56fc4d549875b6f3a6940018ef2e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:20:55 -0400
Subject: dm log writes: fix bug with too large bios

From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

commit 7efb367320f56fc4d549875b6f3a6940018ef2e5 upstream.

bio_alloc() can allocate a bio with at most BIO_MAX_PAGES (256) vector
entries.  However, the incoming bio may have more vector entries if it
was allocated by other means.  For example, bcache submits bios with
more than BIO_MAX_PAGES entries.  This results in bio_alloc() failure.

To avoid the failure, change the code so that it allocates bio with at
most BIO_MAX_PAGES entries.  If the incoming bio has more entries,
bio_add_page() will fail and a new bio will be allocated - the code that
handles bio_add_page() failure already exists in the dm-log-writes
target.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb,com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static int log_one_block(struct log_writ
 	sector++;
 
 	atomic_inc(&lc->io_blocks);
-	bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, block->vec_cnt);
+	bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, min(block->vec_cnt, BIO_MAX_PAGES));
 	if (!bio) {
 		DMERR("Couldn't alloc log bio");
 		goto error;
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int log_one_block(struct log_writ
 		if (ret != block->vecs[i].bv_len) {
 			atomic_inc(&lc->io_blocks);
 			submit_bio(WRITE, bio);
-			bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, block->vec_cnt - i);
+			bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, min(block->vec_cnt - i, BIO_MAX_PAGES));
 			if (!bio) {
 				DMERR("Couldn't alloc log bio");
 				goto error;


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

queue-4.4/dm-log-writes-fix-bug-with-too-large-bios.patch