[PATCH] block: fix q->max_segment_size checking in blk_recalc_rq_segments about VMERGE

From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 06:53:22 EST


blk_recalc_rq_segments assumes that any segments can be merged in the
case of BIOVEC_VIRT_MERGEABLE && !BIOVEC_VIRT_OVERSIZE. However, an
IOMMU can't merge segments if the total length of the segments is
larger than max_segment_size (the LLD restriction).

Due to this bug, a LLD may get the larger number of segments than
nr_hw_segments because the block layer puts more segments in a request
than it should do.

This bug could happen on alpha, parisc, and sparc, which use VMERGE.

Like blk_hw_contig_segment() does, this patch uses hw_seg_size for
simplicity, which is a bit larger than an exact value (we don't need
BIOVEC_VIRT_START_SIZE here).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/blk-merge.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
index 5efc9e7..39a22f8 100644
--- a/block/blk-merge.c
+++ b/block/blk-merge.c
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ void blk_recalc_rq_segments(struct request *rq)
continue;
}
new_segment:
- if (BIOVEC_VIRT_MERGEABLE(bvprv, bv) &&
+ if (hw_seg_size + bv->bv_len <= q->max_segment_size &&
+ BIOVEC_VIRT_MERGEABLE(bvprv, bv) &&
!BIOVEC_VIRT_OVERSIZE(hw_seg_size + bv->bv_len))
hw_seg_size += bv->bv_len;
else {
--
1.5.5.GIT

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