Re: [PATCHv4 1/9] block: fix infiniate loop for invalid zone append

[Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>]

On 2022/05/26 10:06, Keith Busch wrote:
> From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
> 

s/infiniate/infinite in the patch title.

> Returning 0 early from __bio_iov_append_get_pages() for the
> max_append_sectors warning just creates an infinite loop since 0 means
> success, and the bio will never fill from the unadvancing iov_iter. We
> could turn the return into an error value, but it will already be turned
> into an error value later on, so just remove the warning. Clearly no one
> ever hit it anyway.
> 
> Fixes: 0512a75b98f84 ("block: Introduce REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND")
> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
> ---
>  block/bio.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
> index a3893d80dccc..e249f6414fd5 100644
> --- a/block/bio.c
> +++ b/block/bio.c
> @@ -1228,9 +1228,6 @@ static int __bio_iov_append_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
>  	size_t offset;
>  	int ret = 0;
>  
> -	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!max_append_sectors))
> -		return 0;
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * Move page array up in the allocated memory for the bio vecs as far as
>  	 * possible so that we can start filling biovecs from the beginning

Otherwise looks good.

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research